---
type: "Bill"
title: "Exercising authority to exempt individuals domiciled within the state from certain restrictions contained in federal law"
description: "Exercising authority to exempt individuals domiciled within the state from certain restrictions contained in federal law"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2459"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2459 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Human Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shott"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 39
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-16"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d0663121-f224-4dcb-b201-f63ef92d64bd"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2459&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "7955e0c45f5577f8fc6921b3086c26005ef9d5f901fecef3f4bece6b5cb9fdf4"
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 2459 (2019) — Exercising authority to exempt individuals domiciled within the state from certain restrictions contained in federal law

## 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=hb2459%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2459)
2. **HB2459 S JUD AMT_1 2-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2459 S JUD AMT_1 2-6 adopted.htm)
3. **HB2459 SFA TARR 2-11 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/HB2459 SFA TARR 2-11  _1 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2459%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2459)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Shott — primary (person)
- Brown, S. — cosponsor (person)
- Byrd — cosponsor (person)
- Capito — cosponsor (person)
- Fleischauer — cosponsor (person)
- Kessinger — cosponsor (person)
- Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
- Mandt — cosponsor (person)
- Pushkin — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-16** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-16** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-16** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-21** Do pass
- **2019-01-22** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-23** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-24** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-01-24** Passed House (Roll No. 21) `passage`
- **2019-01-24** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-01-25** House Message received
- **2019-01-25** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-25** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Reported do pass, with title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-08** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-11** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-11** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-02-12** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-12** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 122) `passage`
- **2019-02-12** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-02-20** House received Senate message
- **2019-02-20** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 214)
- **2019-02-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-20** Completed legislative action
- **2019-02-21** House Message received
- **2019-02-22** To Governor 2/22/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-22** To Governor 2/22/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-22** To Governor 2/22/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-28** Approved by Governor 2/28/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-01** Approved by Governor 2/28/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-01** Approved by Governor 2/28/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 140, 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/d0663121-f224-4dcb-b201-f63ef92d64bd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).