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type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to eligibility and fraud requirements for public assistance"
description: "Relating to eligibility and fraud requirements for public assistance"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 4001"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4001 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Human Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fast"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 63
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-12"
last_action: "2018-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/20a9d5a0-4c0f-444e-aba2-4070096d532f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4001&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "2b75f77ca8614051eadad7a9acc350a03eccd06966044235fbdd7c9d38b73592"
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 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](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4001%20SUB.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4001)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4001%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4001)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4001%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4001)
## Votes
- HFA E. EVANS 2-19 — **3661** (fail) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **7323** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **276** (pass) · legislature
- REFUSE TO CONCUR — **6236** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **7819** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/20a9d5a0-4c0f-444e-aba2-4070096d532f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).