republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/hb-4838.md

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Bill	Require county boards of education to provide long-term substitute teachers, upon hiring, with certain information	Require county boards of education to provide long-term substitute teachers, upon hiring, with certain information	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	HB 4838	West Virginia HB 4838 (2024)	bill	Education (K12)	enacted	Holstein	4	39	3	2024-01-17	2024-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/de96de64-b8f9-4c86-b221-0e6e17010a2b	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4838&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	640e5ecd110af220bdc23df25c869e5e2140706df3fd7dbe2125b263ca808d57	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4838 (2024) — Require county boards of education to provide long-term substitute teachers, upon hiring, with certain information

Version chain

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

1. Enrolled Version (committee substitute) — source
2. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
3. hb4838 s ed am _1 2-27 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
4. hb4838 s ed amt _1 2-27 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 94–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Holstein — primary (person)
• Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
• Cannon — cosponsor (person)
• Dittman — cosponsor (person)
• Forsht — cosponsor (person)
• Hornby — cosponsor (person)
• Householder — cosponsor (person)
• Mazzocchi — cosponsor (person)
• Pritt, E. — cosponsor (person)
• Shamblin — cosponsor (person)
• Statler — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-17 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-17 To Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-17 To House Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-26 Do pass
• 2024-01-29 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-01-29 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-01-30 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-01-30 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-01-31 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-01-31 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-01-31 Passed House (Roll No. 72) passage
• 2024-01-31 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-02-01 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-02-01 To Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-01 To Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-27 Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment committee-passage
• 2024-02-27 Immediate consideration
• 2024-02-27 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-28 On 2nd reading
• 2024-02-28 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-28 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-02-29 On 3rd reading
• 2024-02-29 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-29 Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 322) passage
• 2024-02-29 Senate requests House to concur
• 2024-03-01 House received Senate message
• 2024-03-01 Immediate consideration
• 2024-03-01 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed (Roll No. 408)
• 2024-03-01 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-03-01 Completed legislative action
• 2024-03-04 House Message received
• 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 3/26/2024 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2024-03-26 Approved by Governor 3/26/24 executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2024-04-22 Chapter 245, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/de96de64-b8f9-4c86-b221-0e6e17010a2b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).