---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating the Division of Multimodal Transportation"
description: "Creating the Division of Multimodal Transportation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4492"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4492 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 40
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-02-02"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/519b7a6f-5487-4ecf-ae6e-e618d7a0e89e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4492&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ef0d3a8d929d06a5d0f99520882b8786172dae3578a8a0104bf6103a50e26665"
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 4492 (2022) — Creating the Division of Multimodal Transportation

## 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=HB4492%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4492)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4492%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4492)
3. **HB4492 S GOV AM _1 3-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4492 S GOV AM _1 3-6 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4492%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4492)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hanshaw — primary (person)
- Skaff — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-02** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-02-02** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-02** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-02-02** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** By substitute, do pass
- **2022-02-23** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-25** Passed House (Roll No. 249) `passage`
- **2022-02-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-28** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-28** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-28** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-08** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-09** On 1st reading
- **2022-03-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-10** On 2nd reading
- **2022-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-10** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-11** On 3rd reading
- **2022-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 454) `passage`
- **2022-03-11** Effective from passage (Roll No. 454)
- **2022-03-11** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-03-12** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-12** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 654)
- **2022-03-12** Effective from passage (Roll No. 655)
- **2022-03-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-12** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-12** House Message received
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/25/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/25/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-25** To Governor 3/25/22 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/2022 - Senate Journal
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 144, 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/519b7a6f-5487-4ecf-ae6e-e618d7a0e89e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).