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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to restrictions on use or sale of motor vehicles based on power source"
+description: "Relating to restrictions on use or sale of motor vehicles based on power source"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 573"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 573 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Queen"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 34
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-24"
+last_action: "2025-08-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95b2460c-e307-4e82-b3e6-870a5d1efbea"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=573&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "7482a4b56521268b972bcc8cf2bd48a8c46d9e9c0d580dc9ee4a405475336954"
+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 SB 573 (2025) — Relating to restrictions on use or sale of motor vehicles based on power source
+
+## 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=sb573%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=573)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb573%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=573)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb573%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=573)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **88–9** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Queen — primary (person)
+- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
+- Rose — cosponsor (person)
+- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
+- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Thorne — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-24** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-24** To Transportation and Infrastructure
+- **2025-02-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-02-24** To Transportation and Infrastructure
+- **2025-03-04** Committee substitute reported
+- **2025-03-05** On 1st reading
+- **2025-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-06** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-07** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 75) `passage`
+- **2025-03-07** Ordered to House
+- **2025-03-10** House received Senate message
+- **2025-03-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-03-10** To Energy and Public Works
+- **2025-03-10** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-01** Do pass
+- **2025-04-02** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-03** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-04** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-04** Passed House (Roll No. 391) `passage`
+- **2025-04-04** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-04** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-04-07** House Message received
+- **2025-04-09** To Governor 4/9/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-10** To Governor 4/9/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-24** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-08-08** Chapter 232, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/95b2460c-e307-4e82-b3e6-870a5d1efbea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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