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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to eliminating the ability of a person’s driver license to be suspended for failure to pay court fines and costs"
+description: "Relating to eliminating the ability of a person’s driver license to be suspended for failure to pay court fines and costs"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 4958"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4958 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hamrick"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 43
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2020-02-21"
+last_action: "2020-04-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c4b3f1d4-a59c-4adf-8b69-b22899a0b084"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4958&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "53b897a36de89d7861a55f98ce0e9d70e98c44389b828723b4a4cc263b809f49"
+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 4958 (2020) — Relating to eliminating the ability of a person’s driver license to be suspended for failure to pay court fines and costs
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4958%20ENG.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4958)
+2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4958%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4958)
+3. **HB4958 AMT _1 3-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4958 AMT _1 3-2 adopted.htm)
+4. **HB4958 HFA HAMRICK 2-25 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/HB4958 HFA HAMRICK 2-25 _1 adopted.htm)
+5. **HB4958 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4958 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm)
+6. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4958%20ORG.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4958)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **89–9** (pass) · lower
+- EFFECT JULY 1, 2020 — **98–1** (pass) · lower
+- EFFECT JULY 1, 2020 — **96–3** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **88–10** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–1** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hamrick — primary (person)
+- Canestraro — cosponsor (person)
+- Fleischauer — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly, D. — cosponsor (person)
+- Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
+- Mandt — cosponsor (person)
+- Miller — cosponsor (person)
+- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pushkin — cosponsor (person)
+- Pyles — cosponsor (person)
+- Shott — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-02-21** Originating in House Judiciary
+- **2020-02-21** Do pass
+- **2020-02-24** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-25** Amendment rejected (Voice vote) `amendment-failure`
+- **2020-02-25** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-02-26** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-26** Passed House (Roll No. 370) `passage`
+- **2020-02-26** Effective July 1, 2020 (Roll No. 371)
+- **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`
+- **2020-03-02** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2020-03-03** On 1st reading
+- **2020-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-03-04** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-03-04** Removed from calendar by Rules Committee
+- **2020-03-05** Returned to calendar by Rules Committee
+- **2020-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-05** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-03-06** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-03-06** Amended on 3rd reading (Voice vote)
+- **2020-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-06** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 518) `passage`
+- **2020-03-06** Effective July 1, 2020 (Roll No. 518)
+- **2020-03-06** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2020-03-07** House received Senate message
+- **2020-03-07** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 768)
+- **2020-03-07** Effective July 1, 2020 (Roll No. 769)
+- **2020-03-07** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-03-07** 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 - House Journal
+- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
+- **2020-04-15** Chapter 227, 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/c4b3f1d4-a59c-4adf-8b69-b22899a0b084`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+