---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increasing number of members for Motor Vehicle Dealers Advisory Board"
description: "Increasing number of members for Motor Vehicle Dealers Advisory Board"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 834"
citation: "West Virginia SB 834 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles", "Roads and Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clements"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 33
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-16"
last_action: "2024-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b1201e82-0638-4bba-8ef5-a29d2d3808da"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=834&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "01313fcfc9c6bcbb5f595e46e91c92f3362ee63147d8a78395cbc2f463e69082"
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 SB 834 (2024) — Increasing number of members for Motor Vehicle Dealers Advisory Board

## 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=sb834%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=834)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb834%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=834)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **88–7** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Clements — primary (person)
- Plymale — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-02-16** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2024-02-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-16** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2024-02-20** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-20** Immediate consideration
- **2024-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-21** On 2nd reading
- **2024-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-22** On 3rd reading
- **2024-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-22** Passed Senate (Roll No. 215) `passage`
- **2024-02-22** Ordered to House
- **2024-02-23** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-02-23** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05** Do pass
- **2024-03-06** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-03-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-08** Passed House (Roll No. 688) `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-09** House Message received
- **2024-03-12** To Governor 3/12/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/12/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/12/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-23** Chapter 187, 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/b1201e82-0638-4bba-8ef5-a29d2d3808da`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).