---
type: "Bill"
title: "Removing the residency requirement for the Commissioner of the Division of Highways"
description: "Removing the residency requirement for the Commissioner of the Division of Highways"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4062"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4062 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Roads and Transportation", "State Personnel"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Criss"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 38
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-13"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75c8b6ea-108b-4953-9f3d-c66e880d93e9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4062&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "df9fba856175f3cc412a4260f7f264eb71154a5f281e053d5c75a6ee9c387282"
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 4062 (2022) — Removing the residency requirement for the Commissioner of the Division of Highways

## 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=HB4062%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4062)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4062%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4062)
3. **HB4062 SFA SYPOLT _1 2-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/floor_amends/HB4062 SFA SYPOLT _1 2-3 adopted.htm)
4. **HB4062 SFAT CLEMENTS _1 2-8 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/floor_amends/HB4062 SFAT CLEMENTS _1 2-8 adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4062%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4062)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Criss — primary (person)
- Booth — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-01-13** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-01-13** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** By substitute, do pass
- **2022-01-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-01-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-01-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-01-25** Passed House (Roll No. 38) `passage`
- **2022-01-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-01-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-01-26** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2022-01-26** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2022-02-02** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-03** On 1st reading
- **2022-02-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-07** On 2nd reading
- **2022-02-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-07** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-02-08** On 3rd reading
- **2022-02-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-08** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 85) `passage`
- **2022-02-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-02-10** House received Senate message
- **2022-02-10** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 96)
- **2022-02-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-10** Completed legislative action
- **2022-02-11** House Message received
- **2022-02-15** To Governor 2/15/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-02-16** To Governor 2/15/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-02-15** To Governor 2/15/22 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-02-21** Approved by Governor 2/21/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-02-22** Approved by Governor 2/21/2022 - Senate Journal
- **2022-02-22** Approved by Governor 2/21/22 - House Journal
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 139, 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/75c8b6ea-108b-4953-9f3d-c66e880d93e9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).