republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2018/hb-4402.md

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Bill	Relating to the prevention of sexual abuse of children	Relating to the prevention of sexual abuse of children	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2018	HB 4402	West Virginia HB 4402 (2018)	bill	Education (K12)	enacted	Espinosa	2	41	3	2018-02-02	2018-04-16	openstates	ocd-bill/53ba01e3-a309-4add-8d72-deb2a3eb2566	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4402&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	e693f5a396c892d525830028ba1b3c6be82863ae817082e45ecef7f907c37527	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4402 (2018) — Relating to the prevention of sexual abuse of children

Version chain

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

1. Enrolled Version (committee substitute) — source
2. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 99–0 (pass) · legislature
• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · legislature
• PASSAGE — 96–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Espinosa — primary (person)
• Blair — cosponsor (person)
• Campbell — cosponsor (person)
• Dean — cosponsor (person)
• Higginbotham — cosponsor (person)
• Hornbuckle — cosponsor (person)
• Householder — cosponsor (person)
• Kelly — cosponsor (person)
• Moye — cosponsor (person)
• Rodighiero — cosponsor (person)
• Statler — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-02 Filed for introduction filing
• 2018-02-02 To Education then Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-02 Introduced in House introduction
• 2018-02-02 To House Education referral-committee
• 2018-02-08 Do pass, but first to Judiciary
• 2018-02-08 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-13 Do pass
• 2018-02-14 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-14 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-02-15 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-15 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-02-16 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-16 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-02-16 Passed House (Roll No. 143) passage
• 2018-02-16 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-02-19 House Message received
• 2018-02-19 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2018-02-19 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-19 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-28 Reported do pass, with 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 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-03-03 On 3rd reading
• 2018-03-03 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-03-03 Passed Senate (Roll No. 317) passage
• 2018-03-03 Senate requests House to concur
• 2018-03-05 House received Senate message
• 2018-03-05 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 303)
• 2018-03-05 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-05 Completed legislative action
• 2018-03-06 House Message received
• 2018-03-09 To Governor 3/9/18 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/9/18 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-09 To Governor 3/9/18 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 74, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/53ba01e3-a309-4add-8d72-deb2a3eb2566. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).