2025 Regular Session
Link to Bill History on Legacy Website (Click Here)Summary: Abolishment and immediate closure of satellite DMV offices
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WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2025 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 2622
By Delegates Sheedy and Bridges
[Introduced February 19, 2025; referred to the Committee on Government Organization]
A BILL to amend and reenact §17A-2-8 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to eliminating satellite DMV offices and restoring their functions to private organizations.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
Article 2. Division of Motor Vehicles.
§17A-2-8. Commissioner of motor vehicles -- Office.
(a) The commissioner shall maintain an office in one of the State Capitol buildings. and in such other places in the state as he may deem necessary properly to carry out the powers and duties vested in the department The commissioner shall keep his or her offices office open at all reasonable times for the transaction of public business.
(b) Beginning July 1, 2025, the commissioner may maintain only one office, which shall confirm with subsection (a) of this section, and the duties previously performed by satellite offices shall be performed by private organizations, such as the American Automobile Association (AAA).
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to eliminate satellite DMV offices.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.