---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allowing counties to store and maintain voter registration records in a digital format"
description: "Allowing counties to store and maintain voter registration records in a digital format"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4137"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4137 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Elections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Higginbotham"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-13"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e864ca27-b59c-4ff8-9de5-c1cc8d43305a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4137&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "fa049054188f08b312c0a66b1fad8b5f5ac02bcae805e7d232b59fc77a27211c"
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 4137 (2020) — Allowing counties to store and maintain voter registration records in a digital format

## 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=HB4137%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4137)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4137%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4137)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4137%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4137)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Higginbotham — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- Hanna — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-13** To Political Subdivisions `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-13** To House Political Subdivisions `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-30** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-01-31** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-31** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-03** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-04** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-04** Passed House (Roll No. 85) `passage`
- **2020-02-04** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-05** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-05** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-05** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-29** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-02** On 2nd reading
- **2020-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-03** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-03** Passed Senate (Roll No. 393) `passage`
- **2020-03-03** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-03** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-03** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/12/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/12/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-12** To Governor 3/12/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-24** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 126, 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/e864ca27-b59c-4ff8-9de5-c1cc8d43305a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).