republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2018/hb-4478.md

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Bill	Authorizing public schools to distribute excess food to students	Authorizing public schools to distribute excess food to students	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2018	HB 4478	West Virginia HB 4478 (2018)	bill	Education (K12)	enacted	Lovejoy	3	40	3	2018-02-08	2018-04-17	openstates	ocd-bill/0de376ad-a8c6-462a-8922-f0d4f104900d	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4478&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	f0e7498212c638d1907ff5eb0136184f6ee9869d588fc45380ebc4d13a4e2923	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4478 (2018) — Authorizing public schools to distribute excess food to students

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-SENATE AMENDED HB — 96–1 (pass) · legislature
• PASSAGE — 97–1 (pass) · legislature
• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Lovejoy — primary (person)
• Byrd — cosponsor (person)
• Canestraro — cosponsor (person)
• Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
• Hornbuckle — cosponsor (person)
• Isner — cosponsor (person)
• Miller, R. — cosponsor (person)
• Robinson — cosponsor (person)
• Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
• Rowe — cosponsor (person)
• Williams — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-08 Filed for introduction filing
• 2018-02-08 To Education then Finance referral-committee
• 2018-02-08 Introduced in House introduction
• 2018-02-08 To House Education referral-committee
• 2018-02-16 By substitute, do pass
• 2018-02-16 2nd reference dispensed
• 2018-02-19 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-19 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-02-20 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-20 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-02-21 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-21 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-02-21 Passed House (Roll No. 183) passage
• 2018-02-21 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-02-22 House Message received
• 2018-02-22 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2018-02-22 To Education referral-committee
• 2018-02-22 To Education referral-committee
• 2018-03-02 Reported do pass, with amendment committee-passage
• 2018-03-03 On 1st reading
• 2018-03-03 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-03-05 On 2nd reading
• 2018-03-05 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-03-05 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-03-06 On 3rd reading
• 2018-03-06 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-03-06 Passed Senate (Roll No. 366) passage
• 2018-03-06 Senate requests House to concur
• 2018-03-07 House received Senate message
• 2018-03-07 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 360)
• 2018-03-07 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-07 Completed legislative action
• 2018-03-08 House Message received
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/15/18 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-15 To Governor 3/15/18 executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/15/18 - House 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
• 2018-04-17 Chapter 75, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0de376ad-a8c6-462a-8922-f0d4f104900d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).