---
type: "Bill"
title: "Require the prompt enrollment in payment plans for costs, fines, forfeitures, restitution, or penalties in circuit court and magistrate court"
description: "Require the prompt enrollment in payment plans for costs, fines, forfeitures, restitution, or penalties in circuit court and magistrate court"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4712"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4712 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Courts"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelly, D."]
version_count: 6
action_count: 41
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-02-15"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f33e7e6b-b5ca-4d40-8553-f6fa11461a8a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4712&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "07bfc1ad0fdf56651c16b5be7612c7f4bd86de3fd12e8bd8dd19503ac4510abf"
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 4712 (2022) — Require the prompt enrollment in payment plans for costs, fines, forfeitures, restitution, or penalties in circuit court and magistrate court

## 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=HB4712%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4712)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4712%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4712)
3. **HB4712 S JUD AMT _1 3-4 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4712 S JUD AMT _1 3-4 adopted.htm)
4. **HB4712 SFA TRUMP _1 3-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/floor_amends/HB4712 SFA TRUMP _1 3-9 adopted.htm)
5. **HB4712 SFAT TRUMP _1 3-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/floor_amends/HB4712 SFAT TRUMP _1 3-9 adopted.htm)
6. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4712%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4712)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kelly, D. — primary (person)
- Fast — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-15** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-02-15** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-15** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-02-15** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-21** By substitute, do pass
- **2022-02-22** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-23** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-24** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-24** Passed House (Roll No. 243) `passage`
- **2022-02-24** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-25** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-25** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-07** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-08** On 1st reading
- **2022-03-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-09** On 2nd reading
- **2022-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-10** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2022-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-10** Committee amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
- **2022-03-10** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-10** Passed Senate (Roll No. 418) `passage`
- **2022-03-10** Committee title amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
- **2022-03-10** Title amendment adopted
- **2022-03-10** 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. 612)
- **2022-03-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-12** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-12** 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 3/30/22 - 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 76, 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/f33e7e6b-b5ca-4d40-8553-f6fa11461a8a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).