---
type: "Bill"
title: "Issuing a certificate to correctional employees to carry firearms"
description: "Issuing a certificate to correctional employees to carry firearms"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2462"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2462 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Corrections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hollen"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 43
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-16"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47639ff9-30d8-4b8e-b49f-1c073bb86fb3"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2462&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "bc72dd1b1de247490eecb0fc0e8c5d545fa30853ba21229f7ccd6c9b27df1210"
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 2462 (2019) — Issuing a certificate to correctional employees to carry firearms

## 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=hb2462%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2462)
2. **HB2462 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2462 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm)
3. **HB2462 S JUD AMT _1 1-29 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2462 S JUD AMT _1 1-29 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2462%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2462)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **31–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hollen — primary (person)
- Canestraro — cosponsor (person)
- Fast — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Harshbarger — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Mandt — 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. 22) `passage`
- **2019-01-24** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **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`
- **2019-01-30** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-31** On 1st reading
- **2019-01-31** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-01** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-01** Laid over on 2nd reading 2/1/19
- **2019-02-04** Laid over on 2nd reading 2/4/19
- **2019-02-05** Reported by clerk
- **2019-02-05** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-02-06** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 86) `passage`
- **2019-02-06** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-02-11** House received Senate message
- **2019-02-11** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 115)
- **2019-02-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-11** Completed legislative action
- **2019-02-12** House Message received
- **2019-02-15** To Governor 2/14/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-14** To Governor 2/14/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-15** To Governor 2/14/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-02-19** Approved by Governor 2/19/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-02-20** Approved by Governor 2/19/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-02-20** Approved by Governor 2/19/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 59, 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/47639ff9-30d8-4b8e-b49f-1c073bb86fb3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).