---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to exemptions to the commercial driver's license requirements"
description: "Relating to exemptions to the commercial driver's license requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2359"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2359 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture", "Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howell"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 45
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-14"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ea642ad-996f-4ae2-bc46-2eed694aeb77"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2359&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "c7285d430fe52315807c29326064924d8efea155173f3d10aff3bbbffc4cd186"
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 2359 (2019) — Relating to exemptions to the commercial driver's license requirements

## 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=HB2359%20SUB.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2359)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2359%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2359)
3. **HB2359 S T_I AM _1 2-26 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2359 S T_I AM _1 2-26 adopted.htm)
4. **HB2359 S T_I AMT _1 2-26 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2359 S T_I AMT _1 2-26 adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2359%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2359)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **25–5** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Howell — primary (person)
- Cadle — cosponsor (person)
- Hanna — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)
- Linville — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-14** To Technology and Infrastructure then Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-14** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-14** To House Technology and Infrastructure `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-31** With amendment, do pass, but first to Government Organization `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-31** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** By substitute, do pass
- **2019-02-12** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-12** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-13** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-14** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-14** Passed House (Roll No. 172) `passage`
- **2019-02-14** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-15** House Message received
- **2019-02-15** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-15** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2019-02-15** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2019-02-27** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-28** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-01** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-01** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-02** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-02** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 321) `passage`
- **2019-03-02** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-04** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-04** House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 418)
- **2019-03-04** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-04** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-05** House Message received
- **2019-03-05** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 343)
- **2019-03-05** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-05** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-05** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/9/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/9/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/9/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/19/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/19/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-19** Approved by Governor 3/19/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 173, 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/4ea642ad-996f-4ae2-bc46-2eed694aeb77`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).