republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2022/hb-4311.md

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Bill	Creating criminal penalties for illegal voting activity	Creating criminal penalties for illegal voting activity	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2022	HB 4311	West Virginia HB 4311 (2022)	bill	Crime Elections	enacted	Holstein	5	38	1	2022-01-21	2022-04-19	openstates	ocd-bill/f7058a0c-f16d-4044-83d7-6e5f3fec0da5	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4311&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	90a434ec0ee6ff7f1ebcd821bb04414e64edb3c655742d5c346198286aca5782	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4311 (2022) — Creating criminal penalties for illegal voting activity

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. HB4311 S JUD AM _1 3-3 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4311 S JUD AM _1 3-3 adopted.htm)
4. HB4311 S JUD AMT _1 3-3 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4311 S JUD AMT _1 3-3 adopted.htm)
5. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 27–5 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Holstein — primary (person)
• Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
• Bridges — cosponsor (person)
• Conley — cosponsor (person)
• Keaton — cosponsor (person)
• Kimble — cosponsor (person)
• Pack — cosponsor (person)
• Pritt — cosponsor (person)
• Summers — cosponsor (person)
• Tully — cosponsor (person)
• Ward, G. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-21 Filed for introduction filing
• 2022-01-21 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2022-01-21 Introduced in House introduction
• 2022-01-21 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2022-01-31 By substitute, do pass
• 2022-02-01 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2022-02-01 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2022-02-02 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2022-02-02 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-02-03 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2022-02-03 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-02-03 Passed House (Roll No. 75) passage
• 2022-02-03 Communicated to Senate
• 2022-02-07 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2022-02-07 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2022-02-07 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2022-03-07 Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment committee-passage
• 2022-03-08 On 1st reading
• 2022-03-08 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2022-03-09 On 2nd reading
• 2022-03-09 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-03-09 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2022-03-10 On 3rd reading
• 2022-03-10 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-03-10 Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 409) passage
• 2022-03-10 Senate requests House to concur
• 2022-03-11 House received Senate message
• 2022-03-11 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 574)
• 2022-03-11 Communicated to Senate
• 2022-03-11 Completed legislative action
• 2022-03-12 House Message received
• 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 115, Acts, Regular Session, 2022

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f7058a0c-f16d-4044-83d7-6e5f3fec0da5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).