republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2018/hb-4444.md

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Bill	Clarifying the authority of the State Fire Commission in adopting a State Building Code	Clarifying the authority of the State Fire Commission in adopting a State Building Code	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2018	HB 4444	West Virginia HB 4444 (2018)	bill	Boards and Commissions	enacted	Frich	3	41	3	2018-02-06	2018-04-17	openstates	ocd-bill/a068cbb8-92b2-4e94-864a-78a24e6a0a70	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4444&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	351451e6fc8fe59773a983307e60c30259ac5872cabcea46f652c80cfd4cb70d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4444 (2018) — Clarifying the authority of the State Fire Commission in adopting a State Building Code

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 — 33–1 (pass) · legislature
• PASSAGE — 97–1 (pass) · legislature
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 99–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Frich — primary (person)
• Butler — cosponsor (person)
• Byrd — cosponsor (person)
• Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• Evans, A. — cosponsor (person)
• Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
• Love — cosponsor (person)
• Maynard — cosponsor (person)
• Paynter — cosponsor (person)
• Pushkin — cosponsor (person)
• Statler — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-06 Filed for introduction filing
• 2018-02-06 To Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services then Government Organization
• 2018-02-06 Introduced in House introduction
• 2018-02-06 To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services referral-committee
• 2018-02-13 Do pass, but first to Government Organization
• 2018-02-13 To House Government Organization referral-committee
• 2018-02-21 By substitute, do pass
• 2018-02-22 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-22 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-02-23 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-23 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-02-26 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-26 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-02-26 Passed House (Roll No. 216) passage
• 2018-02-26 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-02-27 House Message received
• 2018-02-27 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2018-02-27 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2018-02-27 To Government Organization 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
• 2018-03-03 On 3rd reading
• 2018-03-03 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-03-03 Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 322) passage
• 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. 304) passage
• 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 3/20/18 - House Journal
• 2018-03-20 Approved by Governor 3/20/18 executive-signature
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/20/18 - Senate Journal
• 2018-04-17 Chapter 111, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a068cbb8-92b2-4e94-864a-78a24e6a0a70. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).