republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2018/hb-4347.md

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Bill	Relating to voluntary contributions to the West Virginia State Police Forensic Laboratory Fund	Relating to voluntary contributions to the West Virginia State Police Forensic Laboratory Fund	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2018	HB 4347	West Virginia HB 4347 (2018)	bill	Crime	enacted	Moore	3	37	2	2018-01-30	2018-04-16	openstates	ocd-bill/f9aa3fd8-0832-44b2-b3ba-178ae06866d9	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4347&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	76d1ea1146d8b874cb30ea0317e848aabc80e086be2e194550eaf73126c8272b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4347 (2018) — Relating to voluntary contributions to the West Virginia State Police Forensic Laboratory Fund

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 — 33–0 (pass) · legislature
• PASSAGE — 92–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Moore — primary (person)
• Byrd — cosponsor (person)
• Capito — cosponsor (person)
• Fast — cosponsor (person)
• Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
• Harshbarger — cosponsor (person)
• Kessinger — cosponsor (person)
• Queen — cosponsor (person)
• Shott — cosponsor (person)
• Sobonya — cosponsor (person)
• Summers — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-30 Filed for introduction filing
• 2018-01-30 To Roads and Transportation then Finance referral-committee
• 2018-01-30 Introduced in House introduction
• 2018-01-30 To House Roads and Transportation referral-committee
• 2018-02-14 With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance committee-passage
• 2018-02-14 To House Finance referral-committee
• 2018-02-20 By substitute, do pass
• 2018-02-21 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-21 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-02-22 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-22 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-02-23 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-23 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-02-23 Passed House (Roll No. 207) passage
• 2018-02-23 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-02-26 House Message received
• 2018-02-26 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2018-02-26 To Finance referral-committee
• 2018-02-26 To Finance referral-committee
• 2018-02-28 Reported do pass 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
• 2018-03-03 On 3rd reading
• 2018-03-03 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-03-03 Passed Senate (Roll No. 316) passage
• 2018-03-03 Communicated to House
• 2018-03-03 Completed legislative action
• 2018-03-05 House received Senate message
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/10/18 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/10/18 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/10/18 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 108, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f9aa3fd8-0832-44b2-b3ba-178ae06866d9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).