---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clarifying venue in West Virginia state courts as it applies to nonresidents of the state"
description: "Clarifying venue in West Virginia state courts as it applies to nonresidents of the state"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 4013"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4013 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Actions", "Suits and Liens"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 58
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-01-12"
last_action: "2018-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6914e52f-08f9-498a-9d14-f444bf2ad310"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4013&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "e7c9e95533f9af74e077be418e1da190e6c06e756a8b08651a772c477d556d69"
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 4013 (2018) — Clarifying venue in West Virginia state courts as it applies to nonresidents of the state

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4013%20SUB.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4013)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4013%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4013)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4013%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4013)

## Votes

- Passage — **30–0** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- CONCUR IN SENATE AMEND. — **25–71** (fail) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Hanshaw — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Atkinson — cosponsor (person)
- Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- Frich — cosponsor (person)
- Graves — cosponsor (person)
- Hollen — cosponsor (person)
- Miller, C. — cosponsor (person)
- Overington — cosponsor (person)
- Romine, R. — cosponsor (person)
- Westfall — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-01-12** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-01-12** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-17** By substitute, do pass
- **2018-01-18** On 1st reading, House Calendar
- **2018-01-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-19** On 2nd reading, House Calendar
- **2018-01-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-01-22** On 3rd reading, House Calendar
- **2018-01-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-01-22** Passed House (Roll No. 7) `passage`
- **2018-01-22** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-01-23** House Message received
- **2018-01-23** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-01-23** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-23** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-01** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-02** On 1st reading
- **2018-02-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-05** On 2nd reading
- **2018-02-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-05** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2018-02-06** On 3rd reading
- **2018-02-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-06** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 74) `passage`
- **2018-02-06** Senate requests House to concur
- **2018-03-01** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-01** House refused to concur and requested Senate to recede (Roll No. 271)
- **2018-03-01** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-02** House Message received
- **2018-03-02** Senate refused to recede; requested conference (Voice vote)
- **2018-03-02** Senate appoints conference committee: Trump, Weld, Baldwin
- **2018-03-02** Communicated to House
- **2018-03-02** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-02** House agreed to conference
- **2018-03-02** House appointed conferees: Hanshaw, Moore, Lovejoy
- **2018-03-02** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-02** To conference
- **2018-03-03** House Message received
- **2018-03-06** Resolution adopted to extend conference
- **2018-03-06** Conference report filed - Senate
- **2018-03-06** Conference report filed - House
- **2018-03-09** Conference report received-House
- **2018-03-09** House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 492)
- **2018-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-10** House Message received
- **2018-03-10** Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 491)
- **2018-03-10** Communicated to House
- **2018-03-10** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-10** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/19/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-19** To Governor 3/19/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/19/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - House Journal
- **2018-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-04-16** Chapter 3, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6914e52f-08f9-498a-9d14-f444bf2ad310`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).