republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/hb-4399.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	Creating the equitable right to expungement	Creating the equitable right to expungement	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	HB 4399	West Virginia HB 4399 (2024)	bill	Crime	enacted	Nestor	8	55	3	2024-01-10	2024-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/4222368f-9a61-4764-a594-22ea4a6103e9	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4399&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	67a3988765f8d9d2d67478101454acd1e1f799ca6294af773ce5688dace79b4b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4399 (2024) — Creating the equitable right to expungement

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. House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 747) (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
5. Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 524) (committee substitute) — source
6. hb4399 s jud amt _1 3-5 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
7. hb4399 sfa trump _1 3-7 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
8. hb4399 sfat trump _1 3-7 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 32–1 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 94–4 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE — 89–7 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Nestor — primary (person)
• Kump — cosponsor (person)
• Lewis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-10 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-01-10 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-10 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-02-12 By substitute, do pass
• 2024-02-13 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-13 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-14 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-14 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-15 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-15 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-15 Passed House (Roll No. 189) passage
• 2024-02-15 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-02-19 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-02-19 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-02-19 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-03-06 Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment committee-passage
• 2024-03-06 Immediate consideration
• 2024-03-06 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-03-07 On 2nd reading
• 2024-03-07 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-07 Committee amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
• 2024-03-07 Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-03-08 On 3rd reading
• 2024-03-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-08 Passed Senate (Roll No. 434) passage
• 2024-03-08 Committee title amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
• 2024-03-08 Title amendment adopted
• 2024-03-08 Senate requests House to concur
• 2024-03-08 House received Senate message
• 2024-03-08 House refused to concur; requested Senate to recede (Voice)
• 2024-03-08 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-03-09 House Message received
• 2024-03-09 Senate refused to recede; requested conference (Voice vote)
• 2024-03-09 Senate appoints conference committee: Stover, Deeds, Caputo
• 2024-03-09 Communicated to House
• 2024-03-09 House received Senate message
• 2024-03-09 House agreed to conference, Pritt, C., Nestor, Garcia
• 2024-03-09 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-03-09 House Message received
• 2024-03-09 Conference report filed - Senate
• 2024-03-09 Conference report received-House
• 2024-03-09 House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 747)
• 2024-03-09 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-03-09 House Message received
• 2024-03-09 Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 524)
• 2024-03-09 Communicated to House
• 2024-03-09 Completed legislative action
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/21/2024 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-21 To Governor 3/21/2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/21/2024 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2024-03-27 Approved by Governor 3/27/24 executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2024-04-22 Chapter 86, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4222368f-9a61-4764-a594-22ea4a6103e9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).