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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to distilled liquor"
+description: "Relating to distilled liquor"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 4793"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4793 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Alcoholic Liquors and Beers"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Smith"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 45
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2024-01-16"
+last_action: "2024-04-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4305e657-ef47-47d0-ae50-c22b7467442d"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4793&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "097561ab62e2621d75854ee1ccb1aaedb6f20781baec196300a04ed2d3e59551"
+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 4793 (2024) — Relating to distilled liquor
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4793%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4793)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4793%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4793)
+3. **hb4793 s gov am _1 3-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/hb4793%20s%20gov%20am%20_1%203-6%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **49–48** (pass) · lower
+- TABLE RECONSIDER — **61–35** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **18–14** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **64–34** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Smith — primary (person)
+- Bridges — cosponsor (person)
+- Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
+- Fehrenbacher — cosponsor (person)
+- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
+- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
+- McGeehan — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
+- Riley — cosponsor (person)
+- Westfall — cosponsor (person)
+- Zatezalo — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2024-01-16** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-16** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2024-01-16** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-18** Do pass
+- **2024-01-19** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-01-19** Postponed on 1st reading, Special Calendar, until 1/22/2024
+- **2024-01-22** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-01-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-01-23** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-01-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-01-24** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-01-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-01-24** Passed House (Roll No. 32) `passage`
+- **2024-01-24** Communicated to Senate
+- **2024-01-25** Motion to reconsider (bill still in House possession)
+- **2024-01-25** Motion to reconsider tabled (Roll No. 41)
+- **2024-01-25** Communicated to Senate
+- **2024-01-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2024-01-26** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-26** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-06** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2024-03-06** Immediate consideration
+- **2024-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-03-07** On 2nd reading
+- **2024-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2024-03-08** On 3rd reading
+- **2024-03-08** Deferred until foot of 3rd reading
+- **2024-03-08** Laid over on 3rd reading 3/8/2024
+- **2024-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 512) `passage`
+- **2024-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2024-03-09** House received Senate message
+- **2024-03-09** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 758)
+- **2024-03-09** Communicated to Senate
+- **2024-03-09** Completed legislative action
+- **2024-03-09** 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 8, 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/4305e657-ef47-47d0-ae50-c22b7467442d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+