republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2018/hb-4242.md

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Bill	Clarifying the jurisdictional amount for removal of a civil action from magistrate court to circuit court	Clarifying the jurisdictional amount for removal of a civil action from magistrate court to circuit court	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2018	HB 4242	West Virginia HB 4242 (2018)	bill	Courts	enacted	Shott	4	36	2	2018-01-22	2018-04-16	openstates	ocd-bill/8fae6177-c6de-437a-9c8c-6bf0190b65cf	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4242&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	79bfc87e4836a2905751862b722b60ed92d9e93e0c67cb33a5fdeb86c7b067e2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4242 (2018) — Clarifying the jurisdictional amount for removal of a civil action from magistrate court to circuit court

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• Passage — 32–0 (pass) · legislature
• PASSAGE — 98–1 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Shott — primary (person)
• Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-22 Filed for introduction filing
• 2018-01-22 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-01-22 Introduced in House introduction
• 2018-01-22 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-01-29 By substitute, do pass
• 2018-01-30 On 1st reading, House Calendar
• 2018-01-30 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-01-31 On 2nd reading, House Calendar
• 2018-01-31 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-01-31 Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-02-01 On 3rd reading, House Calendar
• 2018-02-01 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-02-01 Passed House (Roll No. 36) passage
• 2018-02-01 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-02-02 House Message received
• 2018-02-02 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2018-02-02 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-02 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-13 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2018-02-14 On 1st reading
• 2018-02-14 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-02-15 On 2nd reading
• 2018-02-15 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-02-16 On 3rd reading
• 2018-02-16 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-02-16 Passed Senate (Roll No. 142) passage
• 2018-02-16 Communicated to House
• 2018-02-16 Completed legislative action
• 2018-02-19 House received Senate message
• 2018-02-23 To Governor 2/23/18 executive-receipt
• 2018-02-23 To Governor 2/23/18 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-02-23 To Governor 2/23/18 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-02-27 Approved by Governor 2/27/18 - Senate Journal
• 2018-02-28 Approved by Governor 2/27/18 - House Journal
• 2018-02-27 Approved by Governor 2/27/18 executive-signature
• 2018-04-16 Chapter 5, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8fae6177-c6de-437a-9c8c-6bf0190b65cf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).