republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2020/hb-4618.md

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Bill	Relating to deadly weapons for sale or hire	Relating to deadly weapons for sale or hire	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2020	HB 4618	West Virginia HB 4618 (2020)	bill	Public Safety	enacted	Steele	2	34	2	2020-01-30	2020-04-15	openstates	ocd-bill/e1eadd5c-ea98-4b46-8734-5e266bfcfabf	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4618&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	3ccad10c186611732ba34aa40e5c61568b7481334ef94286c27be8fa10edd6f4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4618 (2020) — Relating to deadly weapons for sale or hire

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 — 93–4 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Steele — primary (person)
• Dean — cosponsor (person)
• Foster — cosponsor (person)
• Graves — cosponsor (person)
• Householder — cosponsor (person)
• Howell — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffries, J. — cosponsor (person)
• Kessinger — cosponsor (person)
• Pack — cosponsor (person)
• Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• Summers — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-30 Filed for introduction filing
• 2020-01-30 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2020-01-30 Introduced in House introduction
• 2020-01-30 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2020-02-05 Do pass
• 2020-02-06 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2020-02-06 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2020-02-07 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2020-02-07 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-02-10 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2020-02-10 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-02-10 Passed House (Roll No. 131) passage
• 2020-02-10 Communicated to Senate
• 2020-02-11 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2020-02-11 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2020-02-11 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2020-03-03 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2020-03-03 Immediate consideration
• 2020-03-03 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2020-03-04 On 2nd reading
• 2020-03-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-03-05 On 3rd reading
• 2020-03-05 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-03-05 Passed Senate (Roll No. 467) passage
• 2020-03-05 Communicated to House
• 2020-03-05 Completed legislative action
• 2020-03-06 House received Senate message
• 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 93, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e1eadd5c-ea98-4b46-8734-5e266bfcfabf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).