republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/hb-4552.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	To ensure party affiliation is consistent with candidate’s voter registration	To ensure party affiliation is consistent with candidate’s voter registration	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	HB 4552	West Virginia HB 4552 (2024)	bill	Elections	enacted	Barnhart	5	45	4	2024-01-10	2024-04-24	openstates	ocd-bill/421416c1-3676-4272-908f-1912b53d60ce	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4552&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	1eac3a792dd393267d9f2eeeb5d98441b46256274a323233f39f5e7df15bd0d6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4552 (2024) — To ensure party affiliation is consistent with candidate’s voter registration

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
4. hb4552 s jud am _1 2-29 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
5. hb4552 s jud amt _1 2-29 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• EFFECT Jan 01, 2025 — 96–1 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Barnhart — primary (person)
• Heckert — cosponsor (person)
• Hillenbrand — cosponsor (person)
• Kimble — 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
• 2024-01-16 By substitute, do pass
• 2024-01-17 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-01-17 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-01-18 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-01-18 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-01-19 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-01-19 Postponed on 3rd reading, Special Calendar, until 1/22/2024
• 2024-01-22 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-01-22 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-01-22 Passed House (Roll No. 16) passage
• 2024-01-22 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-01-23 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-01-23 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-01-23 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-03-05 Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment committee-passage
• 2024-03-05 Immediate consideration
• 2024-03-05 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-03-06 On 2nd reading
• 2024-03-06 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-06 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-03-07 On 3rd reading
• 2024-03-07 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-07 Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 405) passage
• 2024-03-07 Senate requests House to concur
• 2024-03-08 House received Senate message
• 2024-03-08 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 628)
• 2024-03-08 Effective January 1, 2025 (Roll No. 629)
• 2024-03-08 House requests Senate to concur in changed effective date
• 2024-03-08 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-03-09 House Message received
• 2024-03-09 Senate concurred in House changed effective date
• 2024-03-09 Effective January 1, 2025 (Roll No. 489)
• 2024-03-09 Communicated to House
• 2024-03-08 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
• 2024-04-24 Chapter 125, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/421416c1-3676-4272-908f-1912b53d60ce. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).