republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/hb-4940.md

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Bill	A squatter cannot be considered a tenant in WV.	A squatter cannot be considered a tenant in WV.	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	HB 4940	West Virginia HB 4940 (2024)	bill	Real and Personal Property	enacted	Crouse	4	42	3	2024-01-19	2024-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/b93d7eb9-9200-4dcf-94e4-424968a397f8	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4940&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	ceeae00c1f2888ac229bcb013c29fe2734a7e9e36d66064d5f174a12bb2bde83	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4940 (2024) — A squatter cannot be considered a tenant in WV.

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. hb4940 s jud amt _1 2-27 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE — 96–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Crouse — primary (person)
• Kimble — cosponsor (person)
• Lucas — cosponsor (person)
• Petitto — cosponsor (person)
• Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Winzenreid — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-19 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-19 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-01-19 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-19 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-01-30 By substitute, do pass
• 2024-01-31 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-01-31 Postponed on 1st reading, Special Calendar, until 2/1/2024
• 2024-02-01 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-01 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-02 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-02 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-05 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-05 Postponed on 3rd reading, Special Calendar, until 2/6/2024
• 2024-02-06 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-06 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-06 Passed House (Roll No. 101) passage
• 2024-02-06 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-02-07 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-02-07 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-02-07 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-03-01 Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment committee-passage
• 2024-03-01 Immediate consideration
• 2024-03-01 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-03-04 On 2nd reading
• 2024-03-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-04 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-03-05 On 3rd reading
• 2024-03-05 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-05 Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 369) passage
• 2024-03-05 Senate requests House to concur
• 2024-03-06 House received Senate message
• 2024-03-06 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 491)
• 2024-03-06 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-03-06 Completed legislative action
• 2024-03-07 House Message received
• 2024-03-13 To Governor 3/13/2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/13/2024 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/13/2024 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2024-03-22 Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2024-04-22 Chapter 251, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b93d7eb9-9200-4dcf-94e4-424968a397f8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).