---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles"
description: "Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 4026"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4026 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legislature--Rule Making"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Smith"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 38
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-10"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/677d197d-389c-4383-b07e-03010b57dab6"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4026&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "92aa44933dbb532f19fc1c9d81ae40bcab90510a2eb70c4abdecd68c2441330a"
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 4026 (2024) — Authorizing the Department of Administration to promulgate a legislative rule relating to state owned vehicles

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4026%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4026)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4026%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4026)

## Votes

- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Smith — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-10** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-10** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-18** Do pass
- **2024-01-19** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-01-19** Postponed on 1st reading, Special Calendar, until 1/22/2024
- **2024-01-22** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-01-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-01-23** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-01-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-01-24** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-01-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-01-24** Passed House (Roll No. 24) `passage`
- **2024-01-24** Effective from passage (Roll No. 29)
- **2024-01-24** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-01-25** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-01-25** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-30** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-31** On 1st reading
- **2024-01-31** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-01** On 2nd reading
- **2024-02-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-02** On 3rd reading
- **2024-02-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-02** Passed Senate (Roll No. 90) `passage`
- **2024-02-02** Effective from passage (Roll No. 90)
- **2024-02-02** Communicated to House
- **2024-02-02** Completed legislative action
- **2024-02-05** House received Senate message
- **2024-02-07** To Governor 2/7/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-07** To Governor 2/7/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-09** To Governor 2/7/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-13** Approved by Governor 2/13/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-02-13** Approved by Governor 2/13/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-02-13** Approved by Governor 2/14/2024 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Chapter 179, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/677d197d-389c-4383-b07e-03010b57dab6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).