---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating generally to traffic safety"
description: "Relating generally to traffic safety"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2344"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2344 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cannon, J."]
version_count: 5
action_count: 44
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-13"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff4a51e4-7e2f-4353-90b6-3c674f03e362"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2344&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "f4aae6ffca34950f0e006684f152291c42dfff2129a39948ddf48f91b50a6aa7"
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 2344 (2025) — Relating generally to traffic safety

## 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=hb2344%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2344)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2344%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2344)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2344%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2344)
4. **hb2344 s t_i am _1 4-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2344%20s%20t_i%20am%20_1%204-7%20adopted.htm)
5. **hb2344 s trn amt _1 4-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2344%20s%20trn%20amt%20_1%204-7%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **74–18** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cannon, J. — primary (person)
- Browning — cosponsor (person)
- Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
- Eldridge — cosponsor (person)
- Holstein — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-13** To Energy and Public Works
- **2025-02-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-13** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20** Markup Discussion
- **2025-02-25** Do pass
- **2025-02-26** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-02-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-27** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-02-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-28** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-28** Passed House (Roll No. 17) `passage`
- **2025-02-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-03** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-03** To Transportation and Infrastructure then Judiciary
- **2025-03-03** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2025-04-08** Reported do pass with amend and title amend but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-08** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2025-04-08** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-09** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09** Committee Amendment Reported
- **2025-04-09** Laid over on 2nd reading 4/9/2025, com. amend pending
- **2025-04-11** Having been read 2nd time on 4/9/2025
- **2025-04-10** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 471) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Senate requests House to concur
- **2025-04-12** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-12** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 586)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-22** To Governor 4/22/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-25** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-31** Chapter 229, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ff4a51e4-7e2f-4353-90b6-3c674f03e362`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).