---
type: "Bill"
title: "WV Keep, Bear and Drive with Arms Act"
description: "WV Keep, Bear and Drive with Arms Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4048"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4048 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Horst"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 40
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f0bd605-2c47-4d42-8399-3f49fb3a703c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4048&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "021859036a5ac3894d14de9ad863eb12533ba03efc993712339530d6415a5a6b"
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 4048 (2022) — WV Keep, Bear and Drive with Arms Act

## 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=HB4048%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4048)
2. **HB4048 S JUD AM _1 2-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4048 S JUD AM _1 2-9 adopted.htm)
3. **HB4048 S JUD AMT _1 2-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4048 S JUD AMT _1 2-10 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4048%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4048)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Horst — primary (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Dean — cosponsor (person)
- Fast — cosponsor (person)
- Householder — cosponsor (person)
- Howell — cosponsor (person)
- Kimble — cosponsor (person)
- Linville — cosponsor (person)
- McGeehan — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)
- Ward, B. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-01-12** To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** To House Agriculture and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2022-01-19** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-26** Do pass
- **2022-01-27** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-01-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-01-31** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-01-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-01-31** Passed House (Roll No. 58) `passage`
- **2022-01-31** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-01** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-15** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-16** On 1st reading
- **2022-02-16** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-17** On 2nd reading
- **2022-02-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-18** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2022-02-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-18** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-02-18** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 156) `passage`
- **2022-02-18** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-02-23** House received Senate message
- **2022-02-23** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 214)
- **2022-02-23** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-23** Completed legislative action
- **2022-02-24** House Message received
- **2022-03-03** To Governor 3/3/22 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-03** To Governor 3/3/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-04** To Governor 3/3/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/9/2022 - Senate Journal
- **2022-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/9/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/9/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 286, Acts, Regular Session, 2022

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f0bd605-2c47-4d42-8399-3f49fb3a703c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).