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type: "Bill"
title: "Promulgating administrative rules by various executive or administrative agencies of the state"
description: "Promulgating administrative rules by various executive or administrative agencies of the state"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 4079"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4079 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Rules"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sobonya"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 44
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-01-15"
last_action: "2018-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2bea7167-46ab-4e8a-9323-535d9185ec75"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4079&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "d57abbac356ebef4ed122a008ca17c23d016d8ca7f620aef81b4a2b417a227d4"
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 4079 (2018) — Promulgating administrative rules by various executive or administrative agencies of the state
## 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=HB4079%20SUB.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4079)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4079%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4079)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4079%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4079)
## Votes
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **962** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **917** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **330** (pass) · legislature
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **907** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **889** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Sobonya — primary (person)
- Frich — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-15** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-01-15** To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-15** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-01-15** To House Agriculture and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2018-01-24** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-16** By substitute, do pass
- **2018-02-19** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-20** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-21** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-21** Passed House (Roll No. 181) `passage`
- **2018-02-21** Effective from passage (Roll No. 182)
- **2018-02-21** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-02-22** House Message received
- **2018-02-22** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-22** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28** On 1st reading
- **2018-02-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-01** On 2nd reading
- **2018-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2018-03-02** On 3rd reading
- **2018-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-02** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 286) `passage`
- **2018-03-02** Effective from passage (Roll No. 286)
- **2018-03-02** Senate requests House to concur
- **2018-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-09** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 488)
- **2018-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 489)
- **2018-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-10** House Message received
- **2018-03-16** To Governor 3/16/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/16/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/16/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/20/18 - House Journal
- **2018-03-20** Approved by Governor 3/20/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/20/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-04-16** Chapter 147, 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/2bea7167-46ab-4e8a-9323-535d9185ec75`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).