---
type: "Bill"
title: "Correcting terminology referring to racing vehicles illegally on street"
description: "Correcting terminology referring to racing vehicles illegally on street"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 493"
citation: "West Virginia SB 493 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles", "Roads and Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maynard"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-30"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e87c807-d369-416f-84ef-6f29c3f57bff"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=493&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "07d9e53b24009fd742b9ed6a3fa599dcd3229b3ae40e45c526311b263378cd18"
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 493 (2019) — Correcting terminology referring to racing vehicles illegally on street

## 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=SB493%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=493)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB493%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=493)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **90–9** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **28–4** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Maynard — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-31** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-30** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2019-01-31** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-31** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2019-02-20** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-21** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-22** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-23** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-23** Passed Senate (Roll No. 203) `passage`
- **2019-02-23** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-25** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-25** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04** Do pass
- **2019-03-05** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-06** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** Passed House (Roll No. 531) `passage`
- **2019-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-08** House Message received
- **2019-03-19** To Governor 3/19/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/19/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/19/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 260, 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/2e87c807-d369-416f-84ef-6f29c3f57bff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).