---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to deadly weapons for sale or hire"
description: "Relating to deadly weapons for sale or hire"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4618"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4618 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steele"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-30"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e1eadd5c-ea98-4b46-8734-5e266bfcfabf"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4618&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "3ccad10c186611732ba34aa40e5c61568b7481334ef94286c27be8fa10edd6f4"
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 4618 (2020) — Relating to deadly weapons for sale or hire

## 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=HB4618%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4618)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4618%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4618)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **93–4** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Steele — primary (person)
- Dean — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Graves — cosponsor (person)
- Householder — cosponsor (person)
- Howell — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Kessinger — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-30** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-30** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-30** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-30** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-05** Do pass
- **2020-02-06** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-10** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-10** Passed House (Roll No. 131) `passage`
- **2020-02-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-11** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-11** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-11** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-03** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-03** Immediate consideration
- **2020-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-04** On 2nd reading
- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-05** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-05** Passed Senate (Roll No. 467) `passage`
- **2020-03-05** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-05** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-06** House received Senate message
- **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 93, 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/e1eadd5c-ea98-4b46-8734-5e266bfcfabf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).