republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2022/hb-4333.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the sunset of the Board of Hearing-Aid Dealers and Fitters"
description: "Relating to the sunset of the Board of Hearing-Aid Dealers and Fitters"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4333"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4333 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steele"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 57
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-21"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/995b9dfe-41d6-45aa-a4c5-fc8049ae9132"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4333&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "7f340025a4b8f9c05e6e39d4199530097d64952eb77c7bc6831c59ea6a5dfc74"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
---

# West Virginia HB 4333 (2022) — Relating to the sunset of the Board of Hearing-Aid Dealers and Fitters

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4333%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4333)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4333%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4333)
3. **HB4333 SFA TAKUBO _2 2-18 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/floor_amends/HB4333 SFA TAKUBO _2 2-18 adopted.htm)
4. **HB4333 SFAT TAKUBO _2 2-18 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/floor_amends/HB4333 SFAT TAKUBO _2 2-18 adopted.htm)
5. **House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 670)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2022/RS/votes/house/00670.pdf)
6. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4333%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4333)
7. **Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 547)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2022/RS/votes/senate/03-12-0547.pdf)

## Votes

- Passage — **26–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Steele — primary (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-21** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-01-21** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-21** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-01-21** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-27** By substitute, do pass
- **2022-01-28** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-01-31** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-31** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-01** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-01** Passed House (Roll No. 73) `passage`
- **2022-02-01** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-02** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-02** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-02** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-16** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-16** Immediate consideration
- **2022-02-16** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-17** On 2nd reading
- **2022-02-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-18** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2022-02-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-18** Takubo floor amendment reported
- **2022-02-18** Lindsay amendment to amendment rejected (Roll No. 159)
- **2022-02-18** Takubo floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-02-18** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 160) `passage`
- **2022-02-18** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-02-25** House received Senate message
- **2022-02-25** House refused to concur; requested Senate to recede (Voice)
- **2022-02-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-07** House Message received
- **2022-03-07** Senate refused to recede; requested conference (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-07** Senate appoints conference committee: Takubo, Woodrum, Plymale
- **2022-03-07** Communicated to House
- **2022-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-08** House agreed to conference
- **2022-03-08** House appointed conferees: Foster, Smith, Young
- **2022-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-08** To conference
- **2022-03-09** House Message received
- **2022-03-10** Conference report filed - Senate
- **2022-03-11** Conference report filed - House
- **2022-03-12** Conference report received-House
- **2022-03-12** House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 670)
- **2022-03-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-12** House Message received
- **2022-03-12** Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 547)
- **2022-03-12** Communicated to House
- **2022-03-12** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/25/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/25/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-25** To Governor 3/25/22 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/2022 - Senate Journal
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 210, Acts, Regular Session, 2022

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/995b9dfe-41d6-45aa-a4c5-fc8049ae9132`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).