---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to exempting persons employed as attorneys from the civil service system"
description: "Relating to exempting persons employed as attorneys from the civil service system"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4286"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4286 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Personnel"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steele"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 35
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-19"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a9a4bf9-4012-48bc-b815-ac974858c09e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4286&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ec0f052983df8667c061f05f532bc933f517e296e3fee35de378fad36a091a16"
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 4286 (2022) — Relating to exempting persons employed as attorneys from the civil service system

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4286%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4286)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4286%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4286)

## Votes

- Passage — **29–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Steele — primary (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-19** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-01-19** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-01-19** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-27** Do pass
- **2022-01-28** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-01-31** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-31** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-01-31** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 66) `amendment-failure`
- **2022-02-01** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-01** Passed House (Roll No. 71) `passage`
- **2022-02-01** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-02** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-02** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-02** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-03** On 1st reading
- **2022-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-04** On 2nd reading
- **2022-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-07** On 3rd reading
- **2022-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 344) `passage`
- **2022-03-07** Communicated to House
- **2022-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-17** To Governor 3/17/22 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/2022 - Senate Journal
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 219, 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/3a9a4bf9-4012-48bc-b815-ac974858c09e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).