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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| Bill | Clarifying the sheriff’s authority to hire within their office. | Clarifying the sheriff’s authority to hire within their office. | us/states/wv | West Virginia Legislature | 2026 | HB 4561 | West Virginia HB 4561 (2026) |
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West Virginia HB 4561 (2026) — Clarifying the sheriff’s authority to hire within their office.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Engrossed Version (committee substitute) — source
- Enrolled Version (committee substitute) — source
- Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Passage — 34–0 (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — 88–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Brooks — primary (person)
- Green — cosponsor (person)
- Martin — cosponsor (person)
- Pritt — cosponsor (person)
- Roop — cosponsor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2026-01-20 Filed for introduction
filing - 2026-01-20 To Government Organization
referral-committee - 2026-01-20 Introduced in House
introduction - 2026-01-20 To House Government Organization
referral-committee - 2026-02-05 Markup Discussion
- 2026-02-10 Do pass
- 2026-02-11 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- 2026-02-11 Read 1st time
reading-1 - 2026-02-12 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- 2026-02-12 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2026-02-13 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- 2026-02-13 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2026-02-13 Passed House (Roll No. 87)
passage - 2026-02-13 Communicated to Senate
- 2026-02-16 Introduced in Senate
introduction - 2026-02-16 To Government Organization
referral-committee - 2026-02-16 To Government Organization
referral-committee - 2026-03-05 Reported do pass
committee-passage - 2026-03-06 On 1st reading
- 2026-03-06 Read 1st time
reading-1 - 2026-03-09 On 2nd reading
- 2026-03-09 Read 2nd time
reading-2 - 2026-03-10 On 3rd reading
- 2026-03-10 Read 3rd time
reading-3 - 2026-03-10 Passed Senate (Roll No. 401)
passage - 2026-03-10 Communicated to House
- 2026-03-10 Completed legislative action
- 2026-03-10 House received Senate message
- 2026-03-11 To Governor 3/11/2026
executive-receipt - 2026-03-11 To Governor 3/11/2026 - Senate Journal
executive-receipt - 2026-03-14 Approved by Governor 3/19/2026 - Senate Journal
executive-signature - 2026-03-19 Approved by Governor 3/19/2026
executive-signature - 2026-03-14 Approved by Governor 3/19/2026 - House Journal
executive-signature - 2026-06-29 Chapter 210, Acts, Regular Session, 2026
became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8a2c08ca-eab2-494a-81b7-a05b924d3f7c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).