---
type: "Bill"
title: "Modifying the Fair Trade Practices Act"
description: "Modifying the Fair Trade Practices Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 2478"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2478 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Actions", "Suits and Liens", "Consumer Protection"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steele"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 40
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-08"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/af9bb8e4-9ef9-4f53-ad18-ff70384ace6c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2478&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "0112b5936b68945c15c50727b794fa9b42344a82c81d00de31785c3712eabf62"
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 2478 (2020) — Modifying the Fair Trade Practices Act

## 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=HB2478%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=2478)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2478%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=2478)
3. **HB2478 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB2478 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm)
4. **HB2478 S JUD AMT _1 3-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB2478 S JUD AMT _1 3-2 adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2478%20intr.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=2478)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **95–3** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **95–4** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Steele — primary (person)
- Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
- Mandt — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-08** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-08** To Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development then Judiciary
- **2020-01-08** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-08** To House Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2020-01-23** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-21** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-02-24** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-26** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-26** Passed House (Roll No. 335) `passage`
- **2020-02-26** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-27** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-27** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-05** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-05** Immediate consideration
- **2020-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-06** On 2nd reading
- **2020-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-06** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-07** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-07** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 543) `passage`
- **2020-03-07** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-07** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 741)
- **2020-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-19** To Governor 3/19/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 312, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/af9bb8e4-9ef9-4f53-ad18-ff70384ace6c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).