republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/sb-583.md

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Bill	Relating to employer liability and damages in civil actions involving commercial motor vehicles	Relating to employer liability and damages in civil actions involving commercial motor vehicles	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	SB 583	West Virginia SB 583 (2024)	bill	Actions Suits and Liens	enacted	Stuart	7	43	3	2024-01-29	2024-04-23	openstates	ocd-bill/6891b240-1b3f-473e-aa83-76b88a950a1c	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=583&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	382114ade795e77f5d8aa3f3d283cf67f29017483f5df30ad69733f900e03f83	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 583 (2024) — Relating to employer liability and damages in civil actions involving commercial motor vehicles

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. sb583 h jud am _1 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
6. sb583 s jud am _2-22 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
7. sb583 s jud amt _2-22 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 81–15 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 30–1 (pass) · upper
• EFFECT July 01, 2024 — 86–8 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Stuart — primary (person)
• Azinger — cosponsor (person)
• Deeds — cosponsor (person)
• Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• Roberts — cosponsor (person)
• Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Tarr — cosponsor (person)
• Taylor — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-29 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-29 To Transportation and Infrastructure then Judiciary
• 2024-01-29 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-01-29 To Transportation and Infrastructure
• 2024-02-20 Committee substitute reported, but first to Judiciary
• 2024-02-20 Immediate consideration
• 2024-02-20 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-20 Referred to Judiciary on 2nd reading referral-committee
• 2024-02-23 Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment committee-passage
• 2024-02-24 On 2nd reading
• 2024-02-24 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-24 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-02-26 On 3rd reading
• 2024-02-26 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-26 Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 260) passage
• 2024-02-26 Effective July 1, 2024 (Roll No. 260)
• 2024-02-26 Ordered to House
• 2024-02-27 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-02-27 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-03-05 With amendment, do pass committee-passage
• 2024-03-06 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-03-06 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-03-07 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-03-07 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-07 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2024-03-07 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-03-08 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-03-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-08 Passed House (Roll No. 668) passage
• 2024-03-08 Effective July 1, 2024 (Roll No. 669)
• 2024-03-08 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-03-09 House Message received
• 2024-03-09 Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 486)
• 2024-03-09 Effective July 1, 2024 (Roll No. 486)
• 2024-03-09 Communicated to House
• 2024-03-09 Completed legislative action
• 2024-03-19 To Governor 3/19/2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/19/2024 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/19/24 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-27 Approved by Governor 3/27/24 executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2024-04-23 Chapter 1, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6891b240-1b3f-473e-aa83-76b88a950a1c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).