---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to qualifications for commercial driver’s license"
description: "Relating to qualifications for commercial driver’s license"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2850"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2850 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Porterfield"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/971a66cf-86ce-47c3-ae0d-21406ac518c0"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2850&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "8807345ea5ecd99c8e1c7d375a72c7cf2fd7f4f3d9702180fa8d5cf43bb5e386"
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 2850 (2019) — Relating to qualifications for commercial driver’s license

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2850%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2850)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2850%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2850)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **31–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Porterfield — primary (person)
- Cadle — cosponsor (person)
- Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Kessinger — cosponsor (person)
- Linville — cosponsor (person)
- Paynter — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-02-04** To Technology and Infrastructure then Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-04** To House Technology and Infrastructure `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-05** Do pass, but first to Government Organization
- **2019-02-05** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22** Do pass
- **2019-02-22** Immediate consideration
- **2019-02-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-26** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-26** Passed House (Roll No. 325) `passage`
- **2019-02-26** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-27** House Message received
- **2019-02-27** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-27** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2019-02-27** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2019-03-05** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-06** On 1st reading
- **2019-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-08** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 453) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-25** To Governor 3/25/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 175, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/971a66cf-86ce-47c3-ae0d-21406ac518c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).