republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/hb-5232.md

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

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Bill	The Business Liability Protection Act	The Business Liability Protection Act	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	HB 5232	West Virginia HB 5232 (2024)	bill	Public Safety	enacted	Maynor	5	40	3	2024-01-26	2024-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/9c31cea1-82a4-4761-bf01-ac50682fef8c	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5232&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	2c9c2c3af6fed820363f1bda6d125bc98b8082b39a90b160a806bd8d68d397c0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 5232 (2024) — The Business Liability Protection Act

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. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
4. hb5232 s jud am _1 3-3 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
5. hb5232 s jud amt _1 3-5 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 94–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Maynor — primary (person)
• Crouse — cosponsor (person)
• Gearheart — cosponsor (person)
• Hite — cosponsor (person)
• Hornby — cosponsor (person)
• Horst — cosponsor (person)
• McGeehan — cosponsor (person)
• Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Steele — cosponsor (person)
• Willis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-26 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-26 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-01-26 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-26 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-02-06 By substitute, do pass
• 2024-02-07 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-07 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-08 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-08 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-09 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-09 Passed House (Roll No. 139) passage
• 2024-02-09 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-02-13 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-02-13 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-02-13 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-03-06 Without recommendation, but first to Judiciary
• 2024-03-06 Immediate consideration
• 2024-03-06 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-03-06 Rereferred to Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-03-07 Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment committee-passage
• 2024-03-07 Immediate consideration
• 2024-03-07 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-07 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-03-08 On 3rd reading
• 2024-03-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-08 Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 445) passage
• 2024-03-08 Senate requests House to concur
• 2024-03-08 House received Senate message
• 2024-03-08 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 694)
• 2024-03-08 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-03-08 Completed legislative action
• 2024-03-09 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 3/26/2024 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2024-03-26 Approved by Governor 3/26/24 executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2024-04-22 Chapter 269, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9c31cea1-82a4-4761-bf01-ac50682fef8c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).