republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2018/hb-4320.md

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Bill	Limiting the ability of an agent under a power of attorney to take self-benefiting actions	Limiting the ability of an agent under a power of attorney to take self-benefiting actions	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2018	HB 4320	West Virginia HB 4320 (2018)	bill	Estates and Trusts	enacted	McGeehan	3	44	3	2018-01-26	2018-04-16	openstates	ocd-bill/ef1226f8-687d-4686-a784-4f46bf559e60	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4320&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	b59dc3abba25734aa03e5f13820702947db886b08b687140387ab74b33add5e4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4320 (2018) — Limiting the ability of an agent under a power of attorney to take self-benefiting actions

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 — 99–0 (pass) · legislature
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 97–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• McGeehan — primary (person)
• Folk — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-26 Filed for introduction filing
• 2018-01-26 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-01-26 Introduced in House introduction
• 2018-01-26 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-07 By substitute, do pass
• 2018-02-08 On 1st reading, House Calendar
• 2018-02-08 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-02-09 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-09 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-02-12 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-12 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-02-12 Passed House (Roll No. 78) passage
• 2018-02-12 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-02-13 House Message received
• 2018-02-13 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2018-02-13 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-13 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-03-07 Without recommendation, but first rereferred to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-03-07 Immediate consideration
• 2018-03-07 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-03-07 Rereferred to Judiciary on 2nd reading referral-committee
• 2018-03-08 Having been read 1st time 3/7/18
• 2018-03-08 Reported do pass, with 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 (Roll No. 436) passage
• 2018-03-09 Senate requests House to concur
• 2018-03-10 House received Senate message
• 2018-03-10 House concurred in Senate amend with title amend, passed (Roll No. 543)
• 2018-03-10 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-10 House Message received
• 2018-03-10 Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 529)
• 2018-03-10 Communicated to House
• 2018-03-10 Completed legislative action
• 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 176, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ef1226f8-687d-4686-a784-4f46bf559e60. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).