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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Providing for biennial reporting instead of annual reporting for business organizations."
description: "Providing for biennial reporting instead of annual reporting for business organizations."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 4546"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4546 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Corporations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Criss"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 41
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-01-19"
last_action: "2026-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c3ae2d6a-b99b-49cc-a04f-b0ee27db1036"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4546&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "75fee0b6c0e1eb0364f7ce81a973f0a2592db69422d94d8cd7d84a985ea8c01c"
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 4546 (2026) — Providing for biennial reporting instead of annual reporting for business organizations.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4546%20sub1.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4546)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4546%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4546)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4546%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4546)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4546%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4546)
5. **hb4546 s gov am _1 3-8 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/com_amends/hb4546%20s%20gov%20am%20_1%203-8%20adopted.htm)
6. **hb4546 s gov amt _1 3-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/com_amends/hb4546%20s%20gov%20amt%20_1%203-9%20adopted.htm)
## Votes
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **970** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **340** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **960** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Criss — primary (person)
- Flanigan — cosponsor (person)
- Gearheart — cosponsor (person)
- Heckert — cosponsor (person)
- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-01-19** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2026-01-19** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-19** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2026-01-19** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-28** To House Legal Services `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-28** Markup Discussion
- **2026-02-09** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-13** Markup Discussion
- **2026-02-17** By substitute, do pass
- **2026-02-18** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-02-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-19** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-20** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-02-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-20** Passed House (Roll No. 143) `passage`
- **2026-02-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2026-02-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2026-02-21** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-21** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-10** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-10** Immediate consideration
- **2026-03-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-03-11** On 2nd reading
- **2026-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-11** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2026-03-12** On 3rd reading
- **2026-03-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-12** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 483) `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Senate requests House to concur
- **2026-03-14** House received Senate message
- **2026-03-14** House concurred in Senate amendment and title amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 638)
- **2026-03-14** Communicated to Senate
- **2026-03-14** Completed legislative action
- **2026-03-14** House Message received
- **2026-03-25** To Governor 3/25/2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-14** To Governor 3/25/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-01** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-29** Chapter 258, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c3ae2d6a-b99b-49cc-a04f-b0ee27db1036`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).