---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing the Department of Transportation to promulgate legislative rules"
description: "Authorizing the Department of Transportation to promulgate legislative rules"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2400"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2400 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legislature--Rule Making"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Foster"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 41
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-13"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9dbda5c3-223a-4d3b-89e7-dda0467c40f1"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2400&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ff802b3583702d75fc3a1992e6112cfd499409cc8095e15f044c2518cb417c38"
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 2400 (2021) — Authorizing the Department of Transportation to promulgate legislative rules

## 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=HB2400%20SUB.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2400)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2400%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2400)
3. **HB2400 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB2400 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm)
4. **HB2400 S JUD AMT _1 3-18 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB2400 S JUD AMT _1 3-18 adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2400%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2400)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Foster — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-02-13** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-02-13** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-12** By substitute, do pass
- **2021-03-15** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-15** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-16** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-17** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-17** Passed House (Roll No. 175) `passage`
- **2021-03-17** Effective from passage (Roll No. 176)
- **2021-03-17** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-18** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-18** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-23** On 1st reading
- **2021-03-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-24** On 2nd reading
- **2021-03-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-24** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-03-25** On 3rd reading
- **2021-03-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-25** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 199) `passage`
- **2021-03-25** Effective from passage (Roll No. 199)
- **2021-03-25** Senate requests House to concur
- **2021-04-01** House received Senate message
- **2021-04-01** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 391)
- **2021-04-01** Effective from passage (Roll No. 392)
- **2021-04-01** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-04-01** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-02** House Message received
- **2021-04-07** To Governor 4/7/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-07** To Governor 4/7/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-07** To Governor 4/7/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/15/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/15/21 - House Journal
- **2021-04-15** Approved by Governor 4/15/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-20** Chapter 178, Acts, Regular Session, 2021

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9dbda5c3-223a-4d3b-89e7-dda0467c40f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).