---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clarifying that new Department of Health and Human Resources' Deputy Commissioners are exempt from civil service"
description: "Clarifying that new Department of Health and Human Resources' Deputy Commissioners are exempt from civil service"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4059"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4059 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Personnel"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rohrbach"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 41
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c20adf81-c6c4-45a1-b556-efc58d1b5b32"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4059&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "c93cebf5ea76fcb834bdabf25b07c32ad9e74d7684b5e3dbd051db8bdd27f6d3"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
---

# West Virginia HB 4059 (2022) — Clarifying that new Department of Health and Human Resources' Deputy Commissioners are exempt from civil service

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4059%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4059)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4059%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4059)
3. **HB4059 S H_HR AM _13-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4059 S H_HR AM _13-7 adopted.htm)
4. **HB4059 S H_HR AMT _1 3-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4059 S H_HR AMT _1 3-7 adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4059%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4059)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rohrbach — primary (person)
- Forsht — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Mallow — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Ward, G. — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2022-01-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-01-12** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-14** By substitute, do pass
- **2022-01-17** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-01-18** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-01-19** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-01-19** Passed House (Roll No. 21) `passage`
- **2022-01-19** Effective from passage (Roll No. 22)
- **2022-01-19** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-01-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-01-20** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-08** Reported do pass, with amendments and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-09** On 1st reading
- **2022-03-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-10** On 2nd reading
- **2022-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-10** Committee amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-11** On 3rd reading
- **2022-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-11** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 444) `passage`
- **2022-03-11** Effective from passage (Roll No. 444)
- **2022-03-11** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-03-12** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-12** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 598)
- **2022-03-12** Effective from passage (Roll No. 599)
- **2022-03-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-12** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-12** House Message received
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/24/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/24/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-24** To Governor 3/24/22 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/2022 - Senate Journal
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 218, Acts, Regular Session, 2022

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c20adf81-c6c4-45a1-b556-efc58d1b5b32`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).