republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2019/hb-2204.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Prohibiting state licensing boards from hiring lobbyists	Prohibiting state licensing boards from hiring lobbyists	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2019	HB 2204	West Virginia HB 2204 (2019)	bill	Boards and Commissions	enacted	Foster	3	37	2	2019-01-10	2019-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/79072927-e851-45f1-a08b-d29349147fd1	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2204&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	12cbaa4e784c7a81858e09dd909cddbee9ea97e2a90047fcd4b45004643140ea	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 2204 (2019) — Prohibiting state licensing boards from hiring lobbyists

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 — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 84–14 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Foster — primary (person)
• Fast — cosponsor (person)
• Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• Waxman — cosponsor (person)
• Wilson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-10 Filed for introduction filing
• 2019-01-10 To Government Organization then Judiciary referral-committee
• 2019-01-10 Introduced in House introduction
• 2019-01-10 To House Government Organization referral-committee
• 2019-01-15 Do pass, but first to Judiciary
• 2019-01-15 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2019-02-04 By substitute, do pass
• 2019-02-05 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2019-02-05 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2019-02-06 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2019-02-06 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2019-02-07 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2019-02-07 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2019-02-07 Passed House (Roll No. 91) passage
• 2019-02-07 Communicated to Senate
• 2019-02-08 House Message received
• 2019-02-08 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2019-02-08 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2019-02-08 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2019-02-27 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2019-02-28 On 1st reading
• 2019-02-28 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2019-03-01 On 2nd reading
• 2019-03-01 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2019-03-01 Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 297)
• 2019-03-01 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2019-03-01 Passed Senate (Roll No. 298) passage
• 2019-03-01 Communicated to House
• 2019-03-01 Completed legislative action
• 2019-03-02 House received Senate message
• 2019-03-08 To Governor 3/8/19 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2019-03-08 To Governor 3/8/19 executive-receipt
• 2019-03-08 To Governor 3/8/19 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2019-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/19/19 - Senate Journal
• 2019-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/19/19 - House Journal
• 2019-03-19 Approved by Governor 3/19/19 executive-signature
• 2019-04-11 Chapter 122, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/79072927-e851-45f1-a08b-d29349147fd1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).