---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to driver’s licenses"
description: "Relating to driver’s licenses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 4577"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4577 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hornby"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 38
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-01-20"
last_action: "2026-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d78032f4-1502-467d-a0f0-8c6a6328fa69"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4577&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "713c06e9f415a00f0a7354805cb49471d1f835ec4e36c80db4bdc4e6919a0d3f"
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 4577 (2026) — Relating to driver’s licenses

## 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=hb4577%20sub1.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4577)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4577%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4577)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4577%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4577)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4577%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4577)
5. **hb4577 s trn am _1 3-11 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/com_amends/hb4577%20s%20trn%20am%20_1%203-11%20adopted.htm)
6. **hb4577 s trn amt _1 3-11 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/com_amends/hb4577%20s%20trn%20amt%20_1%203-11%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **92–4** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **88–7** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hornby — primary (person)
- Akers — cosponsor (person)
- Criss — cosponsor (person)
- Crouse — cosponsor (person)
- Flanigan — cosponsor (person)
- Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
- Heckert — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle — cosponsor (person)
- Maynor — cosponsor (person)
- McGeehan — cosponsor (person)
- Sheedy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-20** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2026-01-20** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-20** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2026-01-20** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-05** Markup Discussion
- **2026-02-17** By substitute, do pass
- **2026-02-18** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-02-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-19** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-20** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-02-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-20** Passed House (Roll No. 144) `passage`
- **2026-02-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2026-02-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2026-02-21** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2026-02-21** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2026-03-11** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-11** Immediate consideration
- **2026-03-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-03-12** On 2nd reading
- **2026-03-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-12** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2026-03-13** On 3rd reading
- **2026-03-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-13** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 538) `passage`
- **2026-03-13** Senate requests House to concur
- **2026-03-14** House received Senate message
- **2026-03-14** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 675)
- **2026-03-14** Communicated to Senate
- **2026-03-14** Completed legislative action
- **2026-03-14** House Message received
- **2026-03-31** To Governor 3/31/2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-14** To Governor 3/31/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-01** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-29** Chapter 237, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d78032f4-1502-467d-a0f0-8c6a6328fa69`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).