---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to judicial review of Board decisions"
description: "Relating to judicial review of Board decisions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 5395"
citation: "West Virginia HB 5395 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Unemployment Compensation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steele"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 43
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-31"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/108562c3-2fc5-4bae-b6e9-76ff8d12afbb"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5395&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "f4e38e320807bc3b20d3a5363368b5b8314fa13dd1b9c7d1b1e53114abb66d38"
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 5395 (2024) — Relating to judicial review of Board decisions

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5395%20sub.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5395)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5395%20sub%20eng.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5395)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5395%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5395)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5395%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5395)
5. **hb5395 hfa steele 2-22 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/hb5395%20hfa%20steele%202-22%20_1%20adopted.htm)
6. **hb5395 s jud am _1 2-27 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/hb5395%20s%20jud%20am%20_1%202-27%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-31** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-31** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-31** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-20** By substitute, do pass
- **2024-02-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-22** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-22** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2024-02-22** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-02-23** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-23** Passed House (Roll No. 275) `passage`
- **2024-02-23** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-24** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-24** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-27** Immediate consideration
- **2024-02-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-28** On 2nd reading
- **2024-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-28** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-02-29** On 3rd reading
- **2024-02-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** Passed Senate (Roll No. 326) `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Effective from passage (Roll No. 326)
- **2024-02-29** Senate requests House to concur
- **2024-03-01** House received Senate message
- **2024-03-01** Immediate consideration
- **2024-03-01** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 410)
- **2024-03-01** Effective from passage (Roll No. 423)
- **2024-03-01** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-01** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-04** House Message received
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-21** To Governor 3/21/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/24 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Chapter 79, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/108562c3-2fc5-4bae-b6e9-76ff8d12afbb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).