republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/hb-5151.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	Relating to defining term fictive kin	Relating to defining term fictive kin	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	HB 5151	West Virginia HB 5151 (2024)	bill		enacted	Burkhammer	6	43	3	2024-01-25	2024-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/c9326347-19a4-4658-b08e-a68a66386e3c	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5151&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	e99e820f97344916450ab9da3d22b32f564319390699c4072466bb7bbb209b7b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 5151 (2024) — Relating to defining term fictive kin

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. hb5151 hfat fast 2-27 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
5. hb5151 hfat fast 3-5 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
6. hb5151 s h_hr am _1 2-29 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Burkhammer — primary (person)
• Hall, W. — cosponsor (person)
• Heckert — cosponsor (person)
• Hornby — cosponsor (person)
• Kimble — cosponsor (person)
• Petitto — cosponsor (person)
• Pinson — cosponsor (person)
• Riley — cosponsor (person)
• Winzenreid — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-25 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-25 To Senior, Children, and Family Issues then Judiciary
• 2024-01-25 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-25 To House Senior, Children, and Family Issues referral-committee
• 2024-02-02 Do pass, but first to Judiciary
• 2024-02-02 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 By substitute, do pass
• 2024-02-23 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-23 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-26 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-26 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-27 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-27 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-27 Passed House (Roll No. 322) passage
• 2024-02-27 Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-02-27 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-02-28 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-02-28 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2024-02-28 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 Reported do pass, with amendment committee-passage
• 2024-02-29 Immediate consideration
• 2024-02-29 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-03-01 On 2nd reading
• 2024-03-01 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-01 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-03-04 On 3rd reading
• 2024-03-04 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-04 Passed Senate (Roll No. 338) passage
• 2024-03-04 Senate requests House to concur
• 2024-03-07 House received Senate message
• 2024-03-07 House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 520)
• 2024-03-07 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-03-09 House Message received
• 2024-03-09 Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 490)
• 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 49, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c9326347-19a4-4658-b08e-a68a66386e3c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).