---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating a lifetime ban for commercial drivers involved in human trafficking"
description: "Creating a lifetime ban for commercial drivers involved in human trafficking"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4478"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4478 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Butler"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 40
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-22"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9bb2a923-a09f-448a-b78b-eaa53ac339f1"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4478&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "dc6823afb8c5b2eb849e3bf799f810e689e401f5dde88ade1cf7b897b9b48c12"
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 4478 (2020) — Creating a lifetime ban for commercial drivers involved in human trafficking

## 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=HB4478%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4478)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4478%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4478)
3. **HB4478 S JUD AMT _1 2-25 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4478 S JUD AMT _1 2-25 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4478%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4478)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **97–1** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Butler — primary (person)
- Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
- Cadle — cosponsor (person)
- Fast — cosponsor (person)
- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-22** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-22** To Technology and Infrastructure then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-22** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-22** To House Technology and Infrastructure `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-30** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-30** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-07** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-02-10** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-11** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-12** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-12** Passed House (Roll No. 153) `passage`
- **2020-02-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-13** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-13** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-29** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-02** On 2nd reading
- **2020-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-02** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-03** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-03** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 399) `passage`
- **2020-03-03** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-05** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-05** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 548)
- **2020-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-05** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-06** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-19** To Governor 3/19/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 223, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9bb2a923-a09f-448a-b78b-eaa53ac339f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).