---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to pecuniary interests of county and district officers, teachers and school officials in contracts"
description: "Relating to pecuniary interests of county and district officers, teachers and school officials in contracts"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4642"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4642 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "County Officials", "Crime", "Ethics", "Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steele"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 43
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-02-11"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7cfc688-a446-45f3-bb84-0e4b357087fd"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4642&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "8985dce8f4777d3e21c6e14ddfebc6e1fd2e09fe4a19df601b12fb544f6ea8e6"
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 4642 (2022) — Relating to pecuniary interests of county and district officers, teachers and school officials in contracts

## 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=HB4642%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4642)
2. **HB4642 S JUD AM _1 3-11 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4642 S JUD AM _1 3-11 adopted.htm)
3. **HB4642 S JUD AMT _1 3-11 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4642 S JUD AMT _1 3-11 adopted.htm)
4. **HB4642 SFA TRUMP AM _2 3-12 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/floor_amends/HB4642 SFA TRUMP  AM _2 3-12 adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4642%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4642)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Steele — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-02-11** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-11** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-02-11** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** Do pass
- **2022-02-25** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-01** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-01** Passed House (Roll No. 302) `passage`
- **2022-03-01** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-02** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-03-02** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-10** Without recommendation, but first rereferred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-10** Immediate consideration
- **2022-03-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-10** Rereferred to Judiciary on 2nd reading `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-11** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-11** Immediate consideration
- **2022-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-12** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2022-03-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-12** Committee Amendment Reported
- **2022-03-12** Amendment to committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-12** Committee amendment as amended adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-12** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 522) `passage`
- **2022-03-12** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-03-12** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-12** Previous Question (Roll No. 698)
- **2022-03-12** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 699)
- **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 3/28/22 - Senate Journal
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 83, 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/c7cfc688-a446-45f3-bb84-0e4b357087fd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).