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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to industrial access roads"
+description: "Relating to industrial access roads"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 4007"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4007 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Roads and Transportation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["McCormick"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2026-01-14"
+last_action: "2026-06-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2cc85b62-f122-4bb5-aa66-d103441d6b64"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4007&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "05719405a9728b8163ea5501ae1db73837b31dc689e2ead937bb9c093c9224a5"
+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 4007 (2026) — Relating to industrial access roads
+
+## 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=hb4007%20sub1.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4007)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4007%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4007)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4007%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4007)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4007%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4007)
+5. **hb4007 s ecd am _1 3-4 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/com_amends/hb4007%20s%20ecd%20am%20_1%203-4%20adopted.htm)
+6. **hb4007 s ecd amt _1 3-4 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/com_amends/hb4007%20s%20ecd%20amt%20_1%203-4%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- EFFECT Jul 01, 2026 — **91–3** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **92–3** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **90–4** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- McCormick — primary (person)
+- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
+- Eldridge — cosponsor (person)
+- Ferrell — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
+- Kyle — cosponsor (person)
+- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
+- Riley — cosponsor (person)
+- Roop — cosponsor (person)
+- Sheedy — cosponsor (person)
+- Watt — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2026-01-14** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-14** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2026-01-14** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-20** By substitute, do pass
+- **2026-01-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-01-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2026-01-22** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-01-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-01-23** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-01-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-01-23** Passed House (Roll No. 10) `passage`
+- **2026-01-23** Communicated to Senate
+- **2026-01-27** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2026-01-27** To Economic Development then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-01-27** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-05** Reported do pass with amend and title amend but first to Finance `committee-passage`
+- **2026-03-05** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-11** Reported do pass, as amended by Economic Development `committee-passage`
+- **2026-03-11** Immediate consideration
+- **2026-03-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2026-03-12** On 2nd reading
+- **2026-03-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-12** Economic Development com. amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2026-03-13** On 3rd reading
+- **2026-03-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-13** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 522) `passage`
+- **2026-03-13** Effective July 1, 2026 (Roll No. 523)
+- **2026-03-13** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2026-03-14** House received Senate message
+- **2026-03-14** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 668)
+- **2026-03-14** Effective July 1, 2026 (Roll No. 669)
+- **2026-03-14** Communicated to Senate
+- **2026-03-14** Completed legislative action
+- **2026-03-14** House Message received
+- **2026-03-14** To Governor 3/18/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-18** To Governor 3/18/2026 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 3/25/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/2026 `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 3/25/2026 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2026-06-29** Chapter 272, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2cc85b62-f122-4bb5-aa66-d103441d6b64`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+