---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public Health definitions and powers of secretary and commissioner"
description: "Public Health definitions and powers of secretary and commissioner"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4113"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4113 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rohrbach"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 41
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-17"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d403ca58-7d07-4190-bcfc-36216df0c8c1"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4113&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "aa6b30b73902b716d01301d2fb4fd5f970cc368ccdc120929f7d0e0b41179e41"
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 4113 (2022) — Public Health definitions and powers of secretary and commissioner

## 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=HB4113%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4113)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4113%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4113)
3. **HB4113 S H_HR AM _1 3-1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4113 S H_HR AM _1 3-1 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4113%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4113)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rohrbach — primary (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Mallow — cosponsor (person)
- Reed — cosponsor (person)
- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Tully — cosponsor (person)
- Ward, G. — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-01-17** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-01-17** To House Health and Human Resources `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. 42) `passage`
- **2022-01-25** Effective from passage (Roll No. 43)
- **2022-01-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-01-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-01-26** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-04** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-07** On 1st reading
- **2022-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-08** On 2nd reading
- **2022-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-09** On 3rd reading
- **2022-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 394) `passage`
- **2022-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 394)
- **2022-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-03-10** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-10** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 463)
- **2022-03-10** Effective from passage (Roll No. 464)
- **2022-03-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-10** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-11** House Message received
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/25/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/25/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-25** To Governor 3/25/22 `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 228, 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/d403ca58-7d07-4190-bcfc-36216df0c8c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).