republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2026/hb-4755.md

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Bill	Adding Aggravated Vehicular Homicide to the list of qualifying offenses	Adding Aggravated Vehicular Homicide to the list of qualifying offenses	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2026	HB 4755	West Virginia HB 4755 (2026)	bill	Crime Motor Vehicles	enacted	Ridenour	6	40	3	2026-01-22	2026-04-01	openstates	ocd-bill/2403b725-821e-449d-88c8-105d2c82b50c	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4755&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	58a34a9f465f0702db6b2a30da4fe2a0a2372f2306ebe201359ec50b7a7eb957	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4755 (2026) — Adding Aggravated Vehicular Homicide to the list of qualifying offenses

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. hb4755 hfat akers 2-9 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
6. hb4755 s jud amt _1 3-9 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 85–8 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ridenour — primary (person)
• Butler — cosponsor (person)
• Funkhouser — cosponsor (person)
• Hillenbrand — cosponsor (person)
• Kimble — cosponsor (person)
• Kump — cosponsor (person)
• Mallow — cosponsor (person)
• Martin — cosponsor (person)
• Masters — cosponsor (person)
• Ward — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-01-22 Filed for introduction filing
• 2026-01-22 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2026-01-22 Introduced in House introduction
• 2026-01-22 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2026-01-28 To House Courts referral-committee
• 2026-01-29 Markup Discussion
• 2026-01-30 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2026-02-02 Markup Discussion
• 2026-02-04 By substitute, do pass
• 2026-02-05 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2026-02-05 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2026-02-06 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2026-02-06 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2026-02-09 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2026-02-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2026-02-09 Passed House (Roll No. 59) passage
• 2026-02-09 Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2026-02-09 Communicated to Senate
• 2026-02-10 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2026-02-10 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2026-02-10 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2026-03-10 Reported do pass, with title amendment committee-passage
• 2026-03-10 Immediate consideration
• 2026-03-10 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2026-03-11 On 2nd reading
• 2026-03-11 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2026-03-12 On 3rd reading
• 2026-03-12 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2026-03-12 Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 488) passage
• 2026-03-12 Senate requests House to concur
• 2026-03-14 House received Senate message
• 2026-03-14 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 688)
• 2026-03-14 Communicated to Senate
• 2026-03-14 Completed legislative action
• 2026-03-14 House Message received
• 2026-03-25 To Governor 3/25/2026 executive-receipt
• 2026-03-14 To Governor 3/25/2026 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2026-03-14 Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2026-03-14 Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2026-04-01 Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2403b725-821e-449d-88c8-105d2c82b50c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).