---
type: "Bill"
title: "Repeal section relating to school attendance and satisfactory academic progress as conditions of licensing for privilege of operation of motor vehicle"
description: "Repeal section relating to school attendance and satisfactory academic progress as conditions of licensing for privilege of operation of motor vehicle"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4535"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4535 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)", "Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Summers"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 48
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-02-03"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/77edd0aa-a1f2-429b-b679-d4d89cebf738"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4535&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "f41ae6b389f3f9d1190a2bb929fbc6db26e315d197b61a9c45a8188e0d6f8c7a"
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 4535 (2022) — Repeal section relating to school attendance and satisfactory academic progress as conditions of licensing for privilege of operation of motor vehicle

## 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=HB4535%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4535)
2. **HB4535 SFA RUCKER _1 3-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/floor_amends/HB4535 SFA RUCKER _1 3-9 adopted.htm)
3. **HB4535 SFAT KARNES _1 3-8 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/floor_amends/HB4535 SFAT KARNES _1 3-8 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4535%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4535)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Summers — primary (person)
- Crouse — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Honaker — cosponsor (person)
- Paynter — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-03** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-02-03** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-03** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-02-03** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-08** Do pass
- **2022-02-09** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-10** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-10** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 108) `amendment-failure`
- **2022-02-11** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-11** Passed House (Roll No. 125) `passage`
- **2022-02-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-14** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-14** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-14** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** Reported do pass, with amendments and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-03** On 1st reading
- **2022-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-04** On 2nd reading
- **2022-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-07** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2022-03-07** Laid over on 3rd reading 3/7/2022 with right to amend
- **2022-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** Committee amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
- **2022-03-08** Floor amendment reported
- **2022-03-08** Deferred until foot of 2nd reading
- **2022-03-08** Laid over on 3rd reading 3/8/2022 with right to amend
- **2022-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-09** Karnes floor amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
- **2022-03-09** Rucker floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 398) `passage`
- **2022-03-09** Committee title amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
- **2022-03-09** Karnes title amendment adopted
- **2022-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-03-11** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-11** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 580)
- **2022-03-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-11** 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 185, 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/77edd0aa-a1f2-429b-b679-d4d89cebf738`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).