---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the promotion and development of public-use vertiports"
description: "Relating to the promotion and development of public-use vertiports"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4827"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4827 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howell"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 42
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-02-18"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/067612e0-a8a9-4969-badc-940594d89a37"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4827&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "28bb5301bd6a1be5fba000370e8c604b92f0757cf8c030abe573e74be8edf2f5"
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 4827 (2022) — Relating to the promotion and development of public-use vertiports

## 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=HB4827%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4827)
2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4827%20ORG.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4827)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Howell — primary (person)
- Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- Riley — cosponsor (person)
- Ward, B. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-18** Originating in House Select Committee on Tourism and Economic Diversification
- **2022-02-18** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2022-02-18** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23** Do pass
- **2022-02-24** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-28** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-28** Passed House (Roll No. 274) `passage`
- **2022-02-28** Effective from passage (Roll No. 275)
- **2022-02-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-03-01** To Economic Development then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-01** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-09** Reported do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-09** Immediate consideration
- **2022-03-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-09** Referred to Judiciary on 2nd reading `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-10** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-11** On 2nd reading
- **2022-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-12** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2022-03-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-12** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-12** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 530) `passage`
- **2022-03-12** Effective from passage (Roll No. 530)
- **2022-03-12** 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. 693)
- **2022-03-12** Effective from passage (Roll No. 694)
- **2022-03-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-12** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-12** House Message received
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/24/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/24/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-24** To Governor 3/24/22 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - Senate Journal
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 45, 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/067612e0-a8a9-4969-badc-940594d89a37`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).