republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2018/hb-4214.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Increasing penalties for unlawfully possessing or digging ginseng	Increasing penalties for unlawfully possessing or digging ginseng	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2018	HB 4214	West Virginia HB 4214 (2018)	bill	Natural Resources	enacted	Eldridge	3	41	3	2018-01-19	2018-04-16	openstates	ocd-bill/e674ff61-a9b6-41be-93ce-56f457b3d229	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4214&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	196c6c1fb646ac16a68d56cfde8091db3ddb59c9c7823fa242e4d5f09190a6db	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4214 (2018) — Increasing penalties for unlawfully possessing or digging ginseng

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

• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 90–6 (pass) · legislature
• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · legislature
• PASSAGE — 91–7 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Eldridge — primary (person)
• Ambler — cosponsor (person)
• Campbell — cosponsor (person)
• Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• Dean — cosponsor (person)
• Diserio — cosponsor (person)
• Marcum — cosponsor (person)
• Maynard — cosponsor (person)
• Miller, R. — cosponsor (person)
• Paynter — cosponsor (person)
• Phillips — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-19 Filed for introduction filing
• 2018-01-19 To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-01-19 Introduced in House introduction
• 2018-01-19 To House Agriculture and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2018-02-07 With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary committee-passage
• 2018-02-07 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-21 By substitute, do pass
• 2018-02-22 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-22 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-02-23 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-23 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-02-26 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-26 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-02-26 Passed House (Roll No. 215) passage
• 2018-02-26 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-02-27 House Message received
• 2018-02-27 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2018-02-27 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-27 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-03-05 Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment committee-passage
• 2018-03-06 On 1st reading
• 2018-03-06 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-03-07 On 2nd reading
• 2018-03-07 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-03-07 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-03-08 On 3rd reading
• 2018-03-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-03-08 Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 403) passage
• 2018-03-08 Senate requests House to concur
• 2018-03-10 House received Senate message
• 2018-03-10 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 538)
• 2018-03-10 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-10 Completed legislative action
• 2018-03-10 House Message received
• 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 11, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e674ff61-a9b6-41be-93ce-56f457b3d229. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).