---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allowing consumer lenders to permit employees to conduct certain business at locations other than the licensee’s designated office"
description: "Allowing consumer lenders to permit employees to conduct certain business at locations other than the licensee’s designated office"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 3500"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3500 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance and Administration"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Westfall"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 38
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-02-14"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0b2b0ab7-b5fd-406d-a3d3-1a932df88e48"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3500&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "9e8db85270dd963560e8d344b70d554b3911dac66b3500466f31c70e170cdd58"
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 3500 (2023) — Allowing consumer lenders to permit employees to conduct certain business at locations other than the licensee’s designated office

## 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=hb3500%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3500)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3500%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3500)
3. **hb3500 s b_i am _1 3-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/hb3500 s b_i am _1 3-6 adopted.htm)
4. **hb3500 s b_i amt _1 3-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/hb3500 s b_i amt _1 3-6 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Westfall — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-02-14** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-02-14** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-25** Do pass
- **2023-02-27** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-01** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-01** Passed House (Roll No. 397) `passage`
- **2023-03-01** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-02** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-03-02** To Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02** To Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-06** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-06** Immediate consideration
- **2023-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2023-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-08** On 3rd reading
- **2023-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-08** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 441) `passage`
- **2023-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2023-03-10** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-10** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 635)
- **2023-03-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-10** 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 3/29/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 158, 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/0b2b0ab7-b5fd-406d-a3d3-1a932df88e48`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).