---
type: "Bill"
title: "Banning certain persons from sport wagering activities"
description: "Banning certain persons from sport wagering activities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 4700"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4700 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legal Gaming"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fluharty"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 51
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-15"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/43b1bcbe-75d5-44ec-97e1-8cb14919ca0e"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4700&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "4b7121bd2d51caba9a753e5e4c0c6d3b04e44af6cd59b113aea2f4345a152c5c"
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 4700 (2024) — Banning certain persons from sport wagering activities

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4700%20eng.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4700)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4700%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4700)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4700%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4700)
4. **hb4700 hfa fluharty 2-28 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/hb4700%20hfa%20fluharty%202-28%20_1%20adopted.htm)
5. **hb4700 hfat fluharty 2-28 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/hb4700%20hfat%20fluharty%202-28%20adopted.htm)
6. **hb4700 s jud am _1 3-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/hb4700%20s%20jud%20am%20_1%203-3%20adopted.htm)
7. **hb4700 s jud amt _1 3-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/hb4700%20s%20jud%20amt%20_1%203-3%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **90–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **89–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Fluharty — primary (person)
- Cannon — cosponsor (person)
- Hornbuckle — cosponsor (person)
- Winzenreid — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-15** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-15** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-15** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-15** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-15** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-12** Do pass
- **2024-02-13** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-13** Postponed on 1st reading, Special Calendar, until 2/14/2024
- **2024-02-14** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-14** Placed on House Calendar
- **2024-02-14** On 1st reading, House Calendar
- **2024-02-23** From Housel Calendar, 1st reading, placed on Special Calendar
- **2024-02-23** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-26** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-26** On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-27** Placed on House Calendar
- **2024-02-27** On 3rd reading, House Calendar
- **2024-02-28** From House Calendar, 3rd reading, placed on Special Calendar
- **2024-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2024-02-28** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-02-28** Passed House (Roll No. 400) `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-02-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-29** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-29** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-06** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-06** Immediate consideration
- **2024-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2024-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-03-08** On 3rd reading
- **2024-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-08** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 435) `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2024-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2024-03-08** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 703)
- **2024-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-09** House Message received
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-21** To Governor 3/21/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Chapter 139, 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/43b1bcbe-75d5-44ec-97e1-8cb14919ca0e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).