republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2019/hb-2850.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Relating to qualifications for commercial driver’s license	Relating to qualifications for commercial driver’s license	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2019	HB 2850	West Virginia HB 2850 (2019)	bill	Motor Vehicles	enacted	Porterfield	2	36	2	2019-02-04	2019-04-11	openstates	ocd-bill/971a66cf-86ce-47c3-ae0d-21406ac518c0	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2850&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	8807345ea5ecd99c8e1c7d375a72c7cf2fd7f4f3d9702180fa8d5cf43bb5e386	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 2850 (2019) — Relating to qualifications for commercial driver’s license

Version chain

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

1. Enrolled Version (committee substitute) — source
2. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 31–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Porterfield — primary (person)
• Cadle — cosponsor (person)
• Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• Foster — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffries, J. — cosponsor (person)
• Kessinger — cosponsor (person)
• Linville — cosponsor (person)
• Paynter — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-04 Filed for introduction filing
• 2019-02-04 To Technology and Infrastructure then Government Organization referral-committee
• 2019-02-04 Introduced in House introduction
• 2019-02-04 To House Technology and Infrastructure referral-committee
• 2019-02-05 Do pass, but first to Government Organization
• 2019-02-05 To House Government Organization referral-committee
• 2019-02-22 Do pass
• 2019-02-22 Immediate consideration
• 2019-02-22 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2019-02-25 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2019-02-25 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2019-02-26 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2019-02-26 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2019-02-26 Passed House (Roll No. 325) passage
• 2019-02-26 Communicated to Senate
• 2019-02-27 House Message received
• 2019-02-27 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2019-02-27 To Transportation and Infrastructure
• 2019-02-27 To Transportation and Infrastructure
• 2019-03-05 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2019-03-06 On 1st reading
• 2019-03-06 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2019-03-07 On 2nd reading
• 2019-03-07 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2019-03-08 On 3rd reading
• 2019-03-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2019-03-08 Passed Senate (Roll No. 453) passage
• 2019-03-08 Communicated to House
• 2019-03-08 Completed legislative action
• 2019-03-09 To Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2019-03-25 To Governor 3/25/19 executive-receipt
• 2019-03-09 To Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2019-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
• 2019-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
• 2019-03-26 Approved by Governor 3/26/19 executive-signature
• 2019-04-11 Chapter 175, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/971a66cf-86ce-47c3-ae0d-21406ac518c0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).