---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to restrictions on use or sale of motor vehicles based on power source"
description: "Relating to restrictions on use or sale of motor vehicles based on power source"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 573"
citation: "West Virginia SB 573 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Queen"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-24"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95b2460c-e307-4e82-b3e6-870a5d1efbea"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=573&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "7482a4b56521268b972bcc8cf2bd48a8c46d9e9c0d580dc9ee4a405475336954"
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 573 (2025) — Relating to restrictions on use or sale of motor vehicles based on power source

## 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=sb573%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=573)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb573%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=573)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb573%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=573)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **88–9** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Queen — primary (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Thorne — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-24** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-24** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2025-02-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-24** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2025-03-04** Committee substitute reported
- **2025-03-05** On 1st reading
- **2025-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-06** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-07** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 75) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-10** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-10** To Energy and Public Works
- **2025-03-10** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Do pass
- **2025-04-02** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-03** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-04** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-04** Passed House (Roll No. 391) `passage`
- **2025-04-04** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-04** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-07** House Message received
- **2025-04-09** To Governor 4/9/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-10** To Governor 4/9/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-24** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 232, 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/95b2460c-e307-4e82-b3e6-870a5d1efbea`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).