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Bill Creating a lifetime ban for commercial drivers involved in human trafficking Creating a lifetime ban for commercial drivers involved in human trafficking us/states/wv West Virginia Legislature 2020 HB 4478 West Virginia HB 4478 (2020)
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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
  2. Enrolled Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
  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

Votes

  • PASSAGE — 971 (pass) · lower
  • PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 1000 (pass) · lower
  • Passage — 340 (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; origin ocd-bill/9bb2a923-a09f-448a-b78b-eaa53ac339f1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).