---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring the Division of Juvenile Services to transfer to a correctional facility or regional jail any juvenile in its custody that has been transferred to adult jurisdiction of the circuit court and who reaches his or her eighteenth birthday"
description: "Requiring the Division of Juvenile Services to transfer to a correctional facility or regional jail any juvenile in its custody that has been transferred to adult jurisdiction of the circuit court and who reaches his or her eighteenth birthday"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 2483"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2483 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Corrections"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eldridge"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 39
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/055fdec9-c2df-492b-bc84-83b063a86906"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2483&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "d23bf23c15fa3a2cc75d80d5ef37e4c9db33e95014072e804632748db31cadb8"
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 2483 (2018) — Requiring the Division of Juvenile Services to transfer to a correctional facility or regional jail any juvenile in its custody that has been transferred to adult jurisdiction of the circuit court and who reaches his or her eighteenth birthday

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2483%20SUB.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=2483)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2483%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=2483)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2483%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=2483)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **91–0** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **88–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Eldridge — primary (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Iaquinta — cosponsor (person)
- Miller, R. — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Sobonya — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-01-10** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-23** By substitute, do pass
- **2018-01-24** On 1st reading, House Calendar
- **2018-01-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-25** On 2nd reading, House Calendar
- **2018-01-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-01-26** On 3rd reading, House Calendar
- **2018-01-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-01-26** Passed House (Roll No. 19) `passage`
- **2018-01-26** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-01-29** House Message received
- **2018-01-29** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-01-29** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-29** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28** On 1st reading
- **2018-02-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-01** On 2nd reading
- **2018-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-01** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2018-03-02** On 3rd reading
- **2018-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-02** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 277) `passage`
- **2018-03-02** Senate requests House to concur
- **2018-03-05** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-05** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 324)
- **2018-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-05** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-06** House Message received
- **2018-03-09** To Governor 3/9/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/9/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-09** To Governor 3/9/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/20/18 - House Journal
- **2018-03-20** Approved by Governor 3/20/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/20/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-04-16** Chapter 49, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/055fdec9-c2df-492b-bc84-83b063a86906`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).