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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Mandating that all courts provide adjudication for juvenile offenders for traffic violations to the Division of Motor Vehicles"
+description: "Mandating that all courts provide adjudication for juvenile offenders for traffic violations to the Division of Motor Vehicles"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 5238"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 5238 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Linville"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 40
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-01-26"
+last_action: "2024-04-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/199154cd-13a9-487e-be90-9c85d0501e2a"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5238&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "4f3220a16fdcfc72e8cf509f485560a2ffbf64b77c37a19581b6d29dfd05d0d6"
+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 5238 (2024) — Mandating that all courts provide adjudication for juvenile offenders for traffic violations to the Division of Motor Vehicles
+
+## 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=hb5238%20sub.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5238)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5238%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5238)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5238%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5238)
+4. **hb5238 s t_i am _1 3-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/hb5238%20s%20t_i%20am%20_1%203-6%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **91–3** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE — **89–4** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Linville — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-26** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2024-01-26** To Technology and Infrastructure then Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-26** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2024-01-26** To House Technology and Infrastructure `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-09** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
+- **2024-02-09** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-19** By substitute, do pass
+- **2024-02-20** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-22** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-22** Passed House (Roll No. 265) `passage`
+- **2024-02-22** Communicated to Senate
+- **2024-02-23** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2024-02-23** To Transportation and Infrastructure
+- **2024-02-23** To Transportation and Infrastructure
+- **2024-03-06** Reported do pass, with amendments `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 amendments adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2024-03-08** On 3rd reading
+- **2024-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 446) `passage`
+- **2024-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2024-03-08** House received Senate message
+- **2024-03-08** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 697)
+- **2024-03-08** Communicated to Senate
+- **2024-03-08** 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 191, 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/199154cd-13a9-487e-be90-9c85d0501e2a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+