---
type: "Bill"
title: "Repealing section relating to unattended motor vehicles and penalties"
description: "Repealing section relating to unattended motor vehicles and penalties"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 2612"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2612 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Walters"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/75f016d3-442b-4e6f-8ff5-573dd1c3d0d9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2612&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ddf2a80cc8362c7f10e06f96082cf20d24c651a731bedeaad9c8a3d2b45de3b3"
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 2612 (2018) — Repealing section relating to unattended motor vehicles and penalties

## 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=hb2612%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=2612)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2612%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=2612)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–1** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Walters — primary (person)
- Fluharty — cosponsor (person)
- Frich — cosponsor (person)
- Howell — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-01-10** To Roads and Transportation then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** To House Roads and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-23** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2018-01-23** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-30** Do pass
- **2018-01-31** On 1st reading, House Calendar
- **2018-01-31** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-01** On 2nd reading, House Calendar
- **2018-02-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-02** On 3rd reading, House Calendar
- **2018-02-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-02** Passed House (Roll No. 38) `passage`
- **2018-02-02** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-02-05** House Message received
- **2018-02-05** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-05** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-05** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-08** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-09** On 1st reading
- **2018-02-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-12** On 2nd reading
- **2018-02-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-13** On 3rd reading
- **2018-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-13** Passed Senate (Roll No. 109) `passage`
- **2018-02-13** Communicated to House
- **2018-02-13** Completed legislative action
- **2018-02-14** House received Senate message
- **2018-02-16** To Governor 2/16/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-02-19** To Governor 2/16/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-02-16** To Governor 2/16/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-02-21** Approved by Governor 2/21/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-02-21** Approved by Governor 2/21/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-02-22** Approved by Governor 2/21/18 - House Journal
- **2018-04-16** Chapter 43, 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/75f016d3-442b-4e6f-8ff5-573dd1c3d0d9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).