---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prohibition on county, city, or municipality restrictions on advanced air mobility aircraft"
description: "Prohibition on county, city, or municipality restrictions on advanced air mobility aircraft"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4667"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4667 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Municipalities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 45
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-02-14"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/726f4b24-52b9-4982-80f0-0264ab3c2495"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4667&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ef03cbc998f3631718945c112afe4666dca03d414cc49cbc3bd249a53fed1372"
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 4667 (2022) — Prohibition on county, city, or municipality restrictions on advanced air mobility aircraft

## 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=HB4667%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4667)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4667%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4667)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4667%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4667)

## Votes

- Passage — **25–7** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Howell — primary (person)
- Fast — cosponsor (person)
- Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-02-14** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-14** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-02-14** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-18** By substitute, do pass
- **2022-02-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-22** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-23** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-23** Passed House (Roll No. 226) `passage`
- **2022-02-23** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-24** To Economic Development then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** To Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** Reported do pass with amend and title amend but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-03** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-10** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-10** Immediate consideration
- **2022-03-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-11** On 2nd reading
- **2022-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-12** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2022-03-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-12** Economic Development Committee amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
- **2022-03-12** Judiciary Committee amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
- **2022-03-12** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-12** Passed Senate (Roll No. 526) `passage`
- **2022-03-12** Economic Development Committee title amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
- **2022-03-12** Judiciary Committee title amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
- **2022-03-12** Title amendment adopted
- **2022-03-12** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-03-12** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-12** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 695)
- **2022-03-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-12** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-12** House Message received
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/24/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/24/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-24** To Governor 3/24/22 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/2022 - Senate Journal
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 44, Acts, Regular Session, 2022

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/726f4b24-52b9-4982-80f0-0264ab3c2495`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).