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type: "Bill"
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title: "Creating criminal penalties for illegal voting activity"
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description: "Creating criminal penalties for illegal voting activity"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
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legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
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session: "2022"
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identifier: "HB 4311"
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citation: "West Virginia HB 4311 (2022)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Crime", "Elections"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Holstein"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 38
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2022-01-21"
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last_action: "2022-04-19"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f7058a0c-f16d-4044-83d7-6e5f3fec0da5"
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source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4311&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
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source_hash: "90a434ec0ee6ff7f1ebcd821bb04414e64edb3c655742d5c346198286aca5782"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
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---
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# West Virginia HB 4311 (2022) — Creating criminal penalties for illegal voting activity
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4311%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4311)
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2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4311%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4311)
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3. **HB4311 S JUD AM _1 3-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4311 S JUD AM _1 3-3 adopted.htm)
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4. **HB4311 S JUD AMT _1 3-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4311 S JUD AMT _1 3-3 adopted.htm)
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5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4311%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4311)
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## Votes
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- Passage — **27–5** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Holstein — primary (person)
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- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
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- Bridges — cosponsor (person)
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- Conley — cosponsor (person)
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- Keaton — cosponsor (person)
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- Kimble — cosponsor (person)
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- Pack — cosponsor (person)
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- Pritt — cosponsor (person)
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- Summers — cosponsor (person)
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- Tully — cosponsor (person)
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- Ward, G. — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-01-21** Filed for introduction `filing`
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- **2022-01-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
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- **2022-01-21** Introduced in House `introduction`
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- **2022-01-21** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
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- **2022-01-31** By substitute, do pass
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- **2022-02-01** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
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- **2022-02-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
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- **2022-02-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
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- **2022-02-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2022-02-03** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
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- **2022-02-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2022-02-03** Passed House (Roll No. 75) `passage`
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- **2022-02-03** Communicated to Senate
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- **2022-02-07** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
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- **2022-02-07** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
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- **2022-02-07** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
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- **2022-03-07** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
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- **2022-03-08** On 1st reading
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- **2022-03-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
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- **2022-03-09** On 2nd reading
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- **2022-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2022-03-09** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
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- **2022-03-10** On 3rd reading
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- **2022-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2022-03-10** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 409) `passage`
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- **2022-03-10** Senate requests House to concur
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- **2022-03-11** House received Senate message
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- **2022-03-11** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 574)
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- **2022-03-11** Communicated to Senate
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- **2022-03-11** Completed legislative action
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- **2022-03-12** House Message received
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- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
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- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
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- **2022-03-17** To Governor 3/17/22 `executive-receipt`
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- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 - House Journal
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- **2022-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 `executive-signature`
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- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/2022 - Senate Journal
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- **2022-04-19** Chapter 115, Acts, Regular Session, 2022
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f7058a0c-f16d-4044-83d7-6e5f3fec0da5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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