republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2022/hb-4286.md

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Bill	Relating to exempting persons employed as attorneys from the civil service system	Relating to exempting persons employed as attorneys from the civil service system	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2022	HB 4286	West Virginia HB 4286 (2022)	bill	State Personnel	enacted	Steele	2	35	1	2022-01-19	2022-04-19	openstates	ocd-bill/3a9a4bf9-4012-48bc-b815-ac974858c09e	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4286&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	ec0f052983df8667c061f05f532bc933f517e296e3fee35de378fad36a091a16	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4286 (2022) — Relating to exempting persons employed as attorneys from the civil service system

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 — 29–4 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Steele — primary (person)
• Foster — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-19 Filed for introduction filing
• 2022-01-19 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2022-01-19 Introduced in House introduction
• 2022-01-19 To House Government Organization referral-committee
• 2022-01-27 Do pass
• 2022-01-28 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2022-01-28 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2022-01-31 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2022-01-31 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-01-31 Amendment rejected (Roll No. 66) amendment-failure
• 2022-02-01 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2022-02-01 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-02-01 Passed House (Roll No. 71) passage
• 2022-02-01 Communicated to Senate
• 2022-02-02 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2022-02-02 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2022-02-02 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2022-03-02 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2022-03-03 On 1st reading
• 2022-03-03 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2022-03-04 On 2nd reading
• 2022-03-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-03-07 On 3rd reading
• 2022-03-07 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-03-07 Passed Senate (Roll No. 344) passage
• 2022-03-07 Communicated to House
• 2022-03-07 Completed legislative action
• 2022-03-08 House received Senate message
• 2022-03-12 To Governor 3/17/2022 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2022-03-12 To Governor 3/17/22 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2022-03-17 To Governor 3/17/22 executive-receipt
• 2022-03-12 Approved by Governor 3/30/22 - House Journal
• 2022-03-30 Approved by Governor 3/30/22 executive-signature
• 2022-03-12 Approved by Governor 3/30/2022 - Senate Journal
• 2022-04-19 Chapter 219, Acts, Regular Session, 2022

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3a9a4bf9-4012-48bc-b815-ac974858c09e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).