republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2018/hb-4001.md

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Bill	Relating to eligibility and fraud requirements for public assistance	Relating to eligibility and fraud requirements for public assistance	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2018	HB 4001	West Virginia HB 4001 (2018)	bill	Human Services	enacted	Fast	3	63	5	2018-01-12	2018-04-16	openstates	ocd-bill/20a9d5a0-4c0f-444e-aba2-4070096d532f	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4001&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	2b75f77ca8614051eadad7a9acc350a03eccd06966044235fbdd7c9d38b73592	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4001 (2018) — Relating to eligibility and fraud requirements for public assistance

Version chain

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

1. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• HFA E. EVANS 2-19 — 36–61 (fail) · legislature
• PASSAGE — 73–23 (pass) · legislature
• Passage — 27–6 (pass) · legislature
• REFUSE TO CONCUR — 62–36 (pass) · legislature
• PASSAGE — 78–19 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Fast — primary (person)
• Ambler — cosponsor (person)
• Butler — cosponsor (person)
• Foster — cosponsor (person)
• Higginbotham — cosponsor (person)
• Kessinger — cosponsor (person)
• Martin — cosponsor (person)
• McGeehan — cosponsor (person)
• Queen — cosponsor (person)
• Sypolt — cosponsor (person)
• Westfall — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-12 Filed for introduction filing
• 2018-01-12 To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-01-12 Introduced in House introduction
• 2018-01-12 To House Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2018-01-24 With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary committee-passage
• 2018-01-24 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-15 By substitute, do pass
• 2018-02-16 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-16 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-02-19 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-19 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-02-19 Amendment rejected (Roll No. 157) amendment-failure
• 2018-02-20 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-20 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-02-20 Passed House (Roll No. 159) passage
• 2018-02-20 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-02-21 House Message received
• 2018-02-21 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2018-02-21 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2018-02-21 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2018-03-07 Without recommendation, but first rereferred to Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2018-03-07 Immediate consideration
• 2018-03-07 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-03-07 Rereferred to Health and Human Resources on 2nd reading referral-committee
• 2018-03-08 Having been read 1st time 3/7/18
• 2018-03-08 Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment committee-passage
• 2018-03-08 Immediate consideration
• 2018-03-08 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-03-09 On 3rd reading with right to amend, amendment pending
• 2018-03-09 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-03-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-03-09 Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 422) passage
• 2018-03-09 Senate requests House to concur
• 2018-03-10 House received Senate message
• 2018-03-10 House refused to concur and requested Senate to recede (Roll No. 497)
• 2018-03-10 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-10 House Message received
• 2018-03-10 Senate refused to recede; requested conference (Voice vote)
• 2018-03-10 Senate appoints conference committee: Maroney, Weld, Plymale
• 2018-03-10 Communicated to House
• 2018-03-10 House received Senate message
• 2018-03-10 House agreed to conference
• 2018-03-10 House appointed conferees: Shott, Hollen, Canestraro
• 2018-03-10 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-10 To conference
• 2018-03-10 House Message received
• 2018-03-10 Conference report filed - House
• 2018-03-10 Conference report filed - Senate
• 2018-03-10 Conference report received-House
• 2018-03-10 House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 552)
• 2018-03-10 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-10 House Message received
• 2018-03-10 Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 526)
• 2018-03-10 Communicated to House
• 2018-03-10 Completed legislative action
• 2018-03-10 House received Senate message
• 2018-03-21 To Governor 3/21/18 executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/21/18 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/21/18 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - House Journal
• 2018-03-27 Approved by Governor 3/27/18 executive-signature
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - Senate Journal
• 2018-04-16 Chapter 119, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/20a9d5a0-4c0f-444e-aba2-4070096d532f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).