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type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to authorizing the Division of Rehabilitation Services to approve acceptable training programs required for low vision individuals to obtain a Class G drivers license"
description: "Relating to authorizing the Division of Rehabilitation Services to approve acceptable training programs required for low vision individuals to obtain a Class G drivers license"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2701"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2701 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Capito"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-23"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb81f097-b3c6-4fb3-bac4-835e3a262165"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2701&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "80db27e34a965cf64f6b8229340b9654fd86617faed73fa45992b86d3c0b2502"
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 2701 (2021) — Relating to authorizing the Division of Rehabilitation Services to approve acceptable training programs required for low vision individuals to obtain a Class G drivers license
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2701%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2701)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2701%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2701)
## Votes
- Passage — **00** (fail) · upper
## Sponsors
- Capito — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-02-23** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-02-23** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-23** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-02-23** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-03** Do pass
- **2021-03-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-08** Passed House (Roll No. 98) `passage`
- **2021-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-09** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-09** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2021-03-09** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2021-03-17** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-18** On 1st reading
- **2021-03-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-19** On 2nd reading
- **2021-03-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-22** On 3rd reading
- **2021-03-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-22** Passed Senate (Roll No. 162) `passage`
- **2021-03-22** Communicated to House
- **2021-03-22** Completed legislative action
- **2021-03-23** House received Senate message
- **2021-03-26** To Governor 3/26/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-26** To Governor 3/26/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-27** To Governor 3/26/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-02** Approved by Governor 4/1/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-04-01** Approved by Governor 4/1/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-05** Approved by Governor 4/1/21 - House Journal
- **2021-05-20** Chapter 187, Acts, Regular Session, 2021
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cb81f097-b3c6-4fb3-bac4-835e3a262165`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).