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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Preventing municipalities from targeting protected businesses with planning and zoning ordinances more restrictive than those placed upon other businesses."
+description: "Preventing municipalities from targeting protected businesses with planning and zoning ordinances more restrictive than those placed upon other businesses."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 4782"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4782 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Municipalities"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Horst"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-01-16"
+last_action: "2024-04-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b282ce8a-076a-48b1-8774-3feb2ffe869c"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4782&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "f85a301d2dd1f6193642f9a4059d303cbef16880b9f46165fb2611b0b27325a2"
+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 4782 (2024) — Preventing municipalities from targeting protected businesses with planning and zoning ordinances more restrictive than those placed upon other businesses.
+
+## 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=hb4782%20sub.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4782)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4782%20sub%20eng.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4782)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4782%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4782)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4782%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4782)
+5. **hb4782 hfa horst 2-10 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/hb4782%20hfa%20horst%202-10%20_1%20adopted.htm)
+6. **hb4782 sfa tarr _1 2-19 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/hb4782%20sfa%20tarr%20_1%202-19%20adopted.htm)
+7. **hb4782 sfat tarr _1 2-19 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/hb4782%20sfat%20tarr%20_1%202-19%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **33–1** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **92–8** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **86–10** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Horst — primary (person)
+- Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
+- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
+- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
+- Hite — cosponsor (person)
+- Householder — cosponsor (person)
+- Howell — cosponsor (person)
+- Kimble — cosponsor (person)
+- Maynor — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
+- Summers — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2024-01-16** To Political Subdivisions then Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-16** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2024-01-16** To House Political Subdivisions `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-31** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
+- **2024-01-31** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-08** By substitute, do pass
+- **2024-02-09** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-02-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-12** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-02-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-12** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2024-02-12** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2024-02-13** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-13** Passed House (Roll No. 160) `passage`
+- **2024-02-13** Communicated to Senate
+- **2024-02-14** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2024-02-14** Committee reference dispensed
+- **2024-02-15** On 1st reading
+- **2024-02-15** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-16** On 2nd reading
+- **2024-02-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-19** On 3rd reading with right to amend
+- **2024-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-19** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2024-02-19** Passed Senate (Roll No. 167) `passage`
+- **2024-02-19** Title amendment adopted
+- **2024-02-19** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2024-03-01** Immediate consideration
+- **2024-03-01** House concurred in Senate amendment (Roll No. 422)
+- **2024-03-01** Communicated to Senate
+- **2024-03-01** Completed legislative action
+- **2024-03-04** House Message received
+- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-21** To Governor 3/21/2024 `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2024-04-22** Chapter 268, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b282ce8a-076a-48b1-8774-3feb2ffe869c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+