---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to persons required to obtain a license to engage in the business of currency exchange"
description: "Relating to persons required to obtain a license to engage in the business of currency exchange"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 4486"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4486 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Banking and Finance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["White"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 40
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-09"
last_action: "2018-04-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a53ebb7-9ced-46a4-91fe-cc62b935cdc2"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4486&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "09ad9cd49b8d034e09f9d192c98d58472a4c19c129bcade5d187bc733400c5b9"
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 4486 (2018) — Relating to persons required to obtain a license to engage in the business of currency exchange

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4486%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4486)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4486%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4486)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **98–1** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- White — primary (person)
- Dean — cosponsor (person)
- Eldridge — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Frich — cosponsor (person)
- Lane — cosponsor (person)
- Martin — cosponsor (person)
- Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Westfall — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-09** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-02-09** To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-09** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-02-09** To House Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2018-02-15** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Do pass
- **2018-02-23** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-26** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-27** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-27** Passed House (Roll No. 238) `passage`
- **2018-02-27** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-02-28** House Message received
- **2018-02-28** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-28** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-28** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-07** Without recommendation, but first rereferred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-07** Immediate consideration
- **2018-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-07** Rereferred to Judiciary on 2nd reading `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-08** Having been read 1st time 3/7/18
- **2018-03-08** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-08** Immediate consideration
- **2018-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-09** On 3rd reading
- **2018-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 447) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** Communicated to House
- **2018-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-10** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-21** To Governor 3/21/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/21/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/21/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - House Journal
- **2018-03-22** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-04-17** Chapter 187, 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/4a53ebb7-9ced-46a4-91fe-cc62b935cdc2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).