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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Making the entire state \"wet\" or permitting the sale of alcoholic liquors for off-premises consumption"
+description: "Making the entire state \"wet\" or permitting the sale of alcoholic liquors for off-premises consumption"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 4524"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4524 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Alcoholic Liquors and Beers"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Westfall"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 60
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2020-01-24"
+last_action: "2020-04-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/86406ab1-42e4-4fb6-9383-64eedbf9b69a"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4524&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "b923c2d13b1a6a7e7e6425a80b2ee8c57c288b40456372a1ff798af51516b0c4"
+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 4524 (2020) — Making the entire state "wet" or permitting the sale of alcoholic liquors for off-premises consumption
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Amendment adopted (Roll No. 333)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2020/RS/votes/house/00333.pdf)
+2. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4524%20ENG.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4524)
+3. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4524%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4524)
+4. **HB4524 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4524 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm)
+5. **HB4524 S JUD AMT _1 3-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4524 S JUD AMT _1 3-2 adopted.htm)
+6. **House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 776)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2020/RS/votes/house/00776.pdf)
+7. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4524%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4524)
+8. **Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 638)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2020/RS/votes/senate/03-07-0638.pdf)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **73–26** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **27–6** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **75–24** (pass) · lower
+- HFA WESTFALL 2-19 #1 REV. — **63–34** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Westfall — primary (person)
+- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
+- Fluharty — cosponsor (person)
+- Hartman — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
+- Sponaugle — cosponsor (person)
+- Steele — cosponsor (person)
+- Storch — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-24** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2020-01-24** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2020-01-24** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-05** Do pass
+- **2020-02-06** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-10** From Special Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on House Calendar
+- **2020-02-25** On 2nd reading, House Calendar
+- **2020-02-25** From House Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-25** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-02-25** Amendment adopted (Roll No. 333)
+- **2020-02-26** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-26** Passed House (Roll No. 345) `passage`
+- **2020-02-26** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-02-27** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-02-27** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-27** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-03** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2020-03-03** Immediate consideration
+- **2020-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-03-04** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-04** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-03-05** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-05** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 464) `passage`
+- **2020-03-05** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2020-03-06** House received Senate message
+- **2020-03-06** House refused to concur; requested Senate to recede (Voice)
+- **2020-03-06** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-03-07** House Message received
+- **2020-03-07** Senate refused to recede; requested conference (Voice vote)
+- **2020-03-07** Senate appoints conference committee: Weld, Takubo, Hardesty
+- **2020-03-07** Communicated to House
+- **2020-03-07** House received Senate message
+- **2020-03-07** House agreed to conference
+- **2020-03-07** House appointed conferees: Westfall, Capito, Hartman
+- **2020-03-07** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-03-07** To conference
+- **2020-03-07** House Message received
+- **2020-03-07** Conference report filed - Senate
+- **2020-03-07** Conference report filed - House
+- **2020-03-07** Conference report received-House
+- **2020-03-07** House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 776)
+- **2020-03-07** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-03-07** House Message received
+- **2020-03-07** Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 638)
+- **2020-03-07** Communicated to House
+- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
+- **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 7, 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/86406ab1-42e4-4fb6-9383-64eedbf9b69a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+