---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing country roads accountability and transparency"
description: "Establishing country roads accountability and transparency"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4017"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4017 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Roads and Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Summers"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 40
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-09"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/085c24d6-9b19-4c1c-b971-c3c6ed30461e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4017&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "009f63ea78d8542064acfa3a7a660b7dd12109e66b4839328860d01da85c2e21"
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 4017 (2020) — Establishing country roads accountability and transparency

## 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=HB4017%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4017)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4017%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4017)
3. **HB4017 S T_I AM _1 3-5 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4017 S T_I AM _1 3-5 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4017%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4017)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Summers — primary (person)
- Criss — cosponsor (person)
- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Linville — cosponsor (person)
- Mandt — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)
- Toney — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-09** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-09** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-09** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-09** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-16** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-01-17** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-20** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-21** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-21** Passed House (Roll No. 17) `passage`
- **2020-01-21** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-01-22** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-22** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2020-01-22** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2020-03-04** Without recommendation, but first rereferred to Transportation and Infrastructure `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-04** Immediate consideration
- **2020-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-04** On 2nd reading to Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2020-03-05** Reported do pass, with amendments `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-06** On 2nd reading
- **2020-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-06** Committee amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-06** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 522)
- **2020-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-06** Passed Senate (Roll No. 523) `passage`
- **2020-03-06** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-07** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 702)
- **2020-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-19** To Governor 3/19/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 314, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/085c24d6-9b19-4c1c-b971-c3c6ed30461e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).