republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/hb-4274.md

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Bill	Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources	Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	HB 4274	West Virginia HB 4274 (2024)	bill	Health	enacted	Summers	6	42	5	2024-01-10	2024-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/3179cb82-f32b-4123-a640-35e4ac878547	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4274&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	4b54d76470547758b0b65807b6d14e33277338c059c68e8e5237f74551a03ff7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4274 (2024) — Renaming the Department of Health and Human Resources

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Engrossed Version (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Version (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
4. hb4274 hfa summers 1-15 _1 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
5. hb4274 sfa maroney adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
6. hb4274 sfat maroney adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 26–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — 95–1 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — 96–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Summers — primary (person)
• Fehrenbacher — cosponsor (person)
• Hite — cosponsor (person)
• Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
• Tully — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-10 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2024-01-10 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-10 To House Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2024-01-12 With amendment, do pass committee-passage
• 2024-01-15 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-01-15 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-01-16 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-01-16 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-01-16 Committee amendment withdrawn (Voice)
• 2024-01-16 Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-01-17 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-01-17 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-01-17 Passed House (Roll No. 3) passage
• 2024-01-17 Effective from passage (Roll No. 4)
• 2024-01-17 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-01-18 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-01-18 Committee reference dispensed
• 2024-01-18 Immediate consideration
• 2024-01-18 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-01-18 Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 38)
• 2024-01-18 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-01-18 Floor amendments adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-01-18 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-01-18 Passed Senate (Roll No. 39) passage
• 2024-01-18 Title amendment adopted
• 2024-01-18 Effective from passage (Roll No. 39)
• 2024-01-18 Senate requests House to concur
• 2024-01-22 House received Senate message
• 2024-01-22 Immediate consideration
• 2024-01-22 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 12)
• 2024-01-22 Effective from passage (Roll No. 13)
• 2024-01-22 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-01-22 Completed legislative action
• 2024-01-23 House Message received
• 2024-01-26 To Governor 1/26/2024 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-01-26 To Governor 1/26/2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-01-29 To Governor 1/26/2024 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-01-29 Approved by Governor 1/26/2024 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2024-01-26 Approved by Governor 1/26/2024 executive-signature
• 2024-01-29 Approved by Governor 1/26/24 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2024-04-22 Chapter 149, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3179cb82-f32b-4123-a640-35e4ac878547. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).