---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allowing off duty members and officers of the department of public safety to guard private property"
description: "Allowing off duty members and officers of the department of public safety to guard private property"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 4462"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4462 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Byrd"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 39
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-02-07"
last_action: "2018-04-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d84a0348-4c59-4c20-a560-8cad74624167"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4462&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "8597f094bc5eb1074f657e22e75438e0cd6fce3f8eb15e00a7bb564147e30c41"
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 4462 (2018) — Allowing off duty members and officers of the department of public safety to guard private property

## 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=hb4462%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4462)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4462%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4462)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **98–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Byrd — primary (person)
- Canestraro — cosponsor (person)
- Criss — cosponsor (person)
- Dean — cosponsor (person)
- Folk — cosponsor (person)
- Hollen — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Westfall — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-07** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-02-07** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-07** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-02-07** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-13** Do pass
- **2018-02-14** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-15** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-16** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-16** Passed House (Roll No. 144) `passage`
- **2018-02-16** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-02-19** House Message received
- **2018-02-19** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-19** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-19** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-03** On 1st reading
- **2018-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-05** On 2nd reading
- **2018-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-05** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2018-03-06** On 3rd reading
- **2018-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-06** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 365) `passage`
- **2018-03-06** Senate requests House to concur
- **2018-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-08** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 395)
- **2018-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-09** House Message received
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/15/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-15** To Governor 3/15/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/15/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - House Journal
- **2018-03-22** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-04-17** Chapter 218, 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/d84a0348-4c59-4c20-a560-8cad74624167`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).