---
type: "Bill"
title: "Distracted Driving Act"
description: "Distracted Driving Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2218"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2218 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Westfall"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 45
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-11"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91248349-24fc-4177-ba1f-392190e5769d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2218&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "91c2b004794ff11af8d2fad17129a1d35d7220a6bb4fcf2c5cd0de0140415ee5"
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 2218 (2023) — Distracted Driving Act

## 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=hb2218%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2218)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2218%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2218)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2218%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2218)
4. **hb2218 s jud am _1 3-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/hb2218 s jud am _1 3-6 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **25–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Westfall — primary (person)
- Fast — cosponsor (person)
- Fluharty — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kump — cosponsor (person)
- Warner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-11** To Technology and Infrastructure then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-11** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-11** To House Technology and Infrastructure `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-13** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-13** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-07** By substitute, do pass
- **2023-02-08** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-09** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-10** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-10** Passed House (Roll No. 112) `passage`
- **2023-02-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-02-13** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-13** To Transportation and Infrastructure then Judiciary
- **2023-02-13** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2023-02-28** Reported do pass with amend and title amend but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-28** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-07** Immediate consideration
- **2023-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-08** On 2nd reading
- **2023-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-08** T&I committee amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
- **2023-03-08** Judiciary committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-09** On 3rd reading
- **2023-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 451) `passage`
- **2023-03-09** T&I committee title amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-09** Judiciary committee title amendment adopted
- **2023-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2023-03-11** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-11** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 718)
- **2023-03-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-11** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-11** House Message received
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/20/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-20** To Governor 3/20/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/20/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 323, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/91248349-24fc-4177-ba1f-392190e5769d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).