---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to special vehicle registration plates"
description: "Relating to special vehicle registration plates"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2846"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2846 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Miller"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 40
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-04"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1da55e48-b812-4376-8b0b-d6c3f94b17fe"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2846&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "d2b3724bfe9b75b24d0d53b78f92fecc18e58cacc2aff89d4a8477df0c0b1995"
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 2846 (2019) — Relating to special vehicle registration plates

## 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=hb2846%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2846)
2. **HB2846 S T_I AM _1 adopted adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2846 S T_I AM _1 adopted adopted.htm)
3. **HB2846 S T_I AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2846 S T_I AM _1 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2846%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2846)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **93–3** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Miller — primary (person)
- Hornbuckle — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Malcolm — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Pyles — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Swartzmiller — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-04** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-02-04** To Technology and Infrastructure then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-04** To House Technology and Infrastructure `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2019-02-12** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2019-02-13** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-15** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-15** Passed House (Roll No. 190) `passage`
- **2019-02-15** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-18** House Message received
- **2019-02-18** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-18** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2019-02-18** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2019-03-05** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-06** On 1st reading
- **2019-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-08** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-08** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 447) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-08** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 665)
- **2019-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-25** To Governor 3/25/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 174, 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/1da55e48-b812-4376-8b0b-d6c3f94b17fe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).