---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mandate the use of WV DMV electronic lien and title system for certain entities and persons"
description: "Mandate the use of WV DMV electronic lien and title system for certain entities and persons"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 3089"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3089 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rohrbach"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 42
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-03"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05d61c4b-3d7f-4fd0-8bb8-10ea509edea8"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3089&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "fde24055ed3b592e97e863c679a2b85af32ad7e7df1e0859585de879a59efefd"
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 3089 (2025) — Mandate the use of WV DMV electronic lien and title system for certain entities and persons

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3089%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3089)
2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3089%20sub2.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3089)
3. **Engrossed Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3089%20sub2%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3089)
4. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3089%20sub2%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3089)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3089%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3089)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–1** (pass) · upper
- EFFECT Jul 01, 2025 — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rohrbach — primary (person)
- Funkhouser — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-03** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-03** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-03** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** To House Legal Services `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-10** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-11** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-17** By substitute, do pass
- **2025-03-18** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-19** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-20** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-20** Passed House (Roll No. 126) `passage`
- **2025-03-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-21** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2025-03-21** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2025-04-03** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-03** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-04** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-07** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 333) `passage`
- **2025-04-07** Effective July 1, 2025 (Roll No. 334)
- **2025-04-07** Senate requests House to concur in changed effective date
- **2025-04-08** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-08** House concurred in Senate effective date (Roll No. 412)
- **2025-04-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-08** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-09** House Message received
- **2025-04-10** To Governor 4/9/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-09** To Governor 4/9/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-10** To Governor 4/9/2025 - House 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 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-31** Chapter 173, 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/05d61c4b-3d7f-4fd0-8bb8-10ea509edea8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).