---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating a title clearinghouse for non-resident businesses"
description: "Creating a title clearinghouse for non-resident businesses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2506"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2506 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Linville"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 35
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-12"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/84fc89bc-d56e-4d73-b884-0b0530b5663b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2506&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "87f37042357ff109b30e9c4d356d643dd692844c9c8983c3a48d195bbc7c6c98"
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 2506 (2023) — Creating a title clearinghouse for non-resident businesses

## 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=hb2506%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2506)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2506%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2506)

## Votes

- Passage — **31–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Linville — primary (person)
- Cannon — cosponsor (person)
- Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
- Criss — cosponsor (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Fehrenbacher — cosponsor (person)
- Hall, W. — cosponsor (person)
- Householder — cosponsor (person)
- Howell — cosponsor (person)
- Maynor — cosponsor (person)
- Riley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-12** To Technology and Infrastructure `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-12** To House Technology and Infrastructure `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-16** Do pass
- **2023-01-17** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-01-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-18** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-01-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-01-19** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-01-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-01-19** Passed House (Roll No. 17) `passage`
- **2023-01-19** Effective from passage (Roll No. 18)
- **2023-01-19** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-01-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-01-20** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-20** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-01** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-01** Immediate consideration
- **2023-02-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-01** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 112)
- **2023-02-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-01** Passed Senate (Roll No. 113) `passage`
- **2023-02-01** Effective from passage (Roll No. 113)
- **2023-02-01** Communicated to House
- **2023-02-01** Completed legislative action
- **2023-02-02** House received Senate message
- **2023-02-08** To Governor 2/7/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-08** To Governor 2/7/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-07** To Governor 2/7/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-14** Approved by Governor 2/13/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-02-14** Approved by Governor 2/13/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-02-13** Approved by Governor 2/13/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 213, 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/84fc89bc-d56e-4d73-b884-0b0530b5663b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).