republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/hb-4782.md

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Bill	Preventing municipalities from targeting protected businesses with planning and zoning ordinances more restrictive than those placed upon other businesses.	Preventing municipalities from targeting protected businesses with planning and zoning ordinances more restrictive than those placed upon other businesses.	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	HB 4782	West Virginia HB 4782 (2024)	bill	Municipalities	enacted	Horst	7	41	3	2024-01-16	2024-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/b282ce8a-076a-48b1-8774-3feb2ffe869c	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4782&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	f85a301d2dd1f6193642f9a4059d303cbef16880b9f46165fb2611b0b27325a2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4782 (2024) — Preventing municipalities from targeting protected businesses with planning and zoning ordinances more restrictive than those placed upon other businesses.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
5. hb4782 hfa horst 2-10 _1 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
6. hb4782 sfa tarr _1 2-19 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
7. hb4782 sfat tarr _1 2-19 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 33–1 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 92–8 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 86–10 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Horst — primary (person)
• Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
• Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
• Hardy — cosponsor (person)
• Hite — cosponsor (person)
• Householder — cosponsor (person)
• Howell — cosponsor (person)
• Kimble — cosponsor (person)
• Maynor — cosponsor (person)
• Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• Summers — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-16 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-16 To Political Subdivisions then Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-01-16 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-16 To House Political Subdivisions referral-committee
• 2024-01-31 Do pass, but first to Judiciary
• 2024-01-31 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-02-08 By substitute, do pass
• 2024-02-09 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-09 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-12 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-12 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-12 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2024-02-12 Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-02-13 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-13 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-13 Passed House (Roll No. 160) passage
• 2024-02-13 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-02-14 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-02-14 Committee reference dispensed
• 2024-02-15 On 1st reading
• 2024-02-15 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-16 On 2nd reading
• 2024-02-16 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-19 On 3rd reading with right to amend
• 2024-02-19 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-19 Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-02-19 Passed Senate (Roll No. 167) passage
• 2024-02-19 Title amendment adopted
• 2024-02-19 Senate requests House to concur
• 2024-03-01 Immediate consideration
• 2024-03-01 House concurred in Senate amendment (Roll No. 422)
• 2024-03-01 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-03-01 Completed legislative action
• 2024-03-04 House Message received
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/21/2024 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-21 To Governor 3/21/2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/21/2024 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2024-03-27 Approved by Governor 3/27/24 executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2024-04-22 Chapter 268, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b282ce8a-076a-48b1-8774-3feb2ffe869c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).