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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Creating a lifetime ban for commercial drivers involved in human trafficking"
+description: "Creating a lifetime ban for commercial drivers involved in human trafficking"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 4478"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4478 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Butler"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 40
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-01-22"
+last_action: "2020-04-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9bb2a923-a09f-448a-b78b-eaa53ac339f1"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4478&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "dc6823afb8c5b2eb849e3bf799f810e689e401f5dde88ade1cf7b897b9b48c12"
+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 4478 (2020) — Creating a lifetime ban for commercial drivers involved in human trafficking
+
+## 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=HB4478%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4478)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4478%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4478)
+3. **HB4478 S JUD AMT _1 2-25 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4478 S JUD AMT _1 2-25 adopted.htm)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4478%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4478)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **97–1** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Butler — primary (person)
+- Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
+- Cadle — cosponsor (person)
+- Fast — cosponsor (person)
+- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffries, J. — cosponsor (person)
+- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)
+- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-22** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2020-01-22** To Technology and Infrastructure then Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-22** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2020-01-22** To House Technology and Infrastructure `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-30** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-30** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-07** By substitute, do pass
+- **2020-02-10** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-11** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-12** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-12** Passed House (Roll No. 153) `passage`
+- **2020-02-12** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-02-13** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-02-13** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-13** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-28** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-29** On 1st reading
+- **2020-02-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-03-02** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-02** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-03-03** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-03** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 399) `passage`
+- **2020-03-03** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2020-03-05** House received Senate message
+- **2020-03-05** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 548)
+- **2020-03-05** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-03-05** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-03-06** House Message received
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-19** To Governor 3/19/20 `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
+- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-04-15** Chapter 223, Acts, Regular Session, 2020
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9bb2a923-a09f-448a-b78b-eaa53ac339f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+