---
type: "Bill"
title: "Providing that a license to carry a concealed deadly weapon expires on the holder’s birthday"
description: "Providing that a license to carry a concealed deadly weapon expires on the holder’s birthday"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2691"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2691 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howell"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 41
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-28"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19a85838-7687-4b58-92c1-c9854f6b8c4c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2691&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "d51d35dab14adf78c7763a86a3baf9dd597f65e27e637f3906188aec8feb4ab5"
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 2691 (2019) — Providing that a license to carry a concealed deadly weapon expires on the holder’s birthday

## 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=hb2691%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2691)
2. **HB2691 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2691 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm)
3. **HB2691 S JUD AMT _1 2-26 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2691 S JUD AMT _1 2-26 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2691%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2691)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **30–0** (pass) · upper
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Howell — primary (person)
- Cadle — cosponsor (person)
- Dean — cosponsor (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Martin, C. — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Storch — cosponsor (person)
- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-28** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-28** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-28** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-28** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-01** Do pass
- **2019-02-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-06** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-06** Passed House (Roll No. 86) `passage`
- **2019-02-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-07** House Message received
- **2019-02-07** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-07** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **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. 324) `passage`
- **2019-03-02** Effective from passage (Roll No. 324)
- **2019-03-02** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-04** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-04** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 420)
- **2019-03-04** Effective from passage (Roll No. 421)
- **2019-03-04** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-04** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-05** House Message received
- **2019-03-06** To Governor 3/6/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-06** To Governor 3/6/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-06** To Governor 3/6/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 264, 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/19a85838-7687-4b58-92c1-c9854f6b8c4c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).