republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2018/hb-4268.md

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Bill	Co-tenancy Modernization and Majority Protection Act	Co-tenancy Modernization and Majority Protection Act	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2018	HB 4268	West Virginia HB 4268 (2018)	bill	Natural Resources	enacted	Anderson	4	56	8	2018-01-24	2018-04-16	openstates	ocd-bill/f00934f6-5b45-4cdc-ad5d-b1fc069d5fc5	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4268&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	ebd88b1e5e22edece3fd57970afcb6ff3de33651dd7d918a2c0108e4385aeb81	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4268 (2018) — Co-tenancy Modernization and Majority Protection Act

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

• HFA JENNINGS #1 2-14 — 90–5 (pass) · legislature
• HFA ROBINSON 2-14 #2 — 38–57 (fail) · legislature
• HFA FLEISCHAUER ET AL 2-14 — 40–57 (fail) · legislature
• HFA FOLK 2-14 — 90–6 (pass) · legislature
• PASSAGE — 60–40 (pass) · legislature
• Passage — 23–11 (pass) · legislature
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 58–41 (pass) · legislature
• HFA ISNER 2-14 — 50–47 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Anderson — primary (person)
• Atkinson — cosponsor (person)
• Fast — cosponsor (person)
• Foster — cosponsor (person)
• Higginbotham — cosponsor (person)
• Hollen — cosponsor (person)
• Kelly — cosponsor (person)
• Lane — cosponsor (person)
• Ward — cosponsor (person)
• Westfall — cosponsor (person)
• Zatezalo — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-24 Filed for introduction filing
• 2018-01-24 To Energy then Judiciary
• 2018-01-24 Introduced in House introduction
• 2018-01-24 To House Energy referral-committee
• 2018-01-31 With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary committee-passage
• 2018-01-31 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-12 By substitute, do pass
• 2018-02-13 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-13 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-02-14 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-14 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-02-14 Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-02-14 Amendment rejected (Roll No. 104) amendment-failure
• 2018-02-14 Amendment adopted (Roll No. 105)
• 2018-02-14 Amendment adopted (Roll No. 106)
• 2018-02-14 Amendment withdrawn (Voice vote)
• 2018-02-14 Amendment adopted (Roll No. 107)
• 2018-02-14 Amendment rejected (Roll No. 108) amendment-failure
• 2018-02-15 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-15 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-02-15 Passed House (Roll No. 117) passage
• 2018-02-15 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-02-16 House Message received
• 2018-02-16 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2018-02-16 To Energy, Industry and Mining then Judiciary
• 2018-02-16 To Energy, Industry and Mining
• 2018-02-21 Reported do pass, but first to Judiciary committee-passage
• 2018-02-21 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-28 Reported do pass, with title amendment committee-passage
• 2018-03-01 On 1st reading
• 2018-03-01 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-03-02 On 2nd reading
• 2018-03-02 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-03-02 Ojeda Floor amendment rejected (Voice vote)
• 2018-03-02 Romano Floor amendment #1 withdrawn by unanimous consent
• 2018-03-02 Romano Floor amendment #3 rejected (Roll No. 297)
• 2018-03-02 Romano Floor amendments #2 rejected (Roll No. 298)
• 2018-03-03 On 3rd reading
• 2018-03-03 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-03-03 Passed Senate (Roll No. 313) passage
• 2018-03-03 Judiciary Title amendment withdrawn (Voice vote)
• 2018-03-03 Floor Title amendment adopted
• 2018-03-03 Senate requests House to concur
• 2018-03-05 House received Senate message
• 2018-03-05 House concurred in Senate title amendment
• 2018-03-05 Passed House (Roll No. 302) passage
• 2018-03-05 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-05 Completed legislative action
• 2018-03-06 House Message received
• 2018-03-06 To Governor 3/6/18 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-06 To Governor 3/6/18 executive-receipt
• 2018-03-06 To Governor 3/6/18 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/9/18 - Senate Journal
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/9/18 - House Journal
• 2018-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/9/18 executive-signature
• 2018-04-16 Chapter 149, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f00934f6-5b45-4cdc-ad5d-b1fc069d5fc5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).