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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to qualifications for commercial driver’s license"
+description: "Relating to qualifications for commercial driver’s license"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 2850"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2850 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Porterfield"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2019-02-04"
+last_action: "2019-04-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/971a66cf-86ce-47c3-ae0d-21406ac518c0"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2850&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "8807345ea5ecd99c8e1c7d375a72c7cf2fd7f4f3d9702180fa8d5cf43bb5e386"
+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 2850 (2019) — Relating to qualifications for commercial driver’s license
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2850%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2850)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2850%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2850)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **31–2** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Porterfield — primary (person)
+- Cadle — cosponsor (person)
+- Cooper — cosponsor (person)
+- Foster — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffries, J. — cosponsor (person)
+- Kessinger — cosponsor (person)
+- Linville — cosponsor (person)
+- Paynter — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-04** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2019-02-04** To Technology and Infrastructure then Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-04** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2019-02-04** To House Technology and Infrastructure `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-05** Do pass, but first to Government Organization
+- **2019-02-05** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-22** Do pass
+- **2019-02-22** Immediate consideration
+- **2019-02-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-26** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-26** Passed House (Roll No. 325) `passage`
+- **2019-02-26** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-02-27** House Message received
+- **2019-02-27** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-02-27** To Transportation and Infrastructure
+- **2019-02-27** To Transportation and Infrastructure
+- **2019-03-05** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-06** On 1st reading
+- **2019-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-03-07** On 2nd reading
+- **2019-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-08** On 3rd reading
+- **2019-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 453) `passage`
+- **2019-03-08** Communicated to House
+- **2019-03-08** Completed legislative action
+- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-25** To Governor 3/25/19 `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
+- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
+- **2019-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-04-11** Chapter 175, Acts, Regular Session, 2019
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/971a66cf-86ce-47c3-ae0d-21406ac518c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+