What changed in West Virginia
Insurance law does not sit still, but most guides are written once and left alone. Repealed programs and retired forms keep circulating for years. This is what actually changed inWest Virginia, when, and where to verify it.
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January 1, 2024
Moving hereSafety inspection moved from annual to every two years, fee capped at $19
HB 2310 (2023 Acts ch. 212) amended §§ 17C-16-4, 17C-16-5 and 17C-16-6 to change the interval of mandatory vehicle inspections from one year to two, double the sticker charge to the inspection station to $6, and raise the maximum an inspection station may charge a motorist to $19. The statute gives the amendments an internal effective date of January 1, 2024, so stickers issued from that day cover 24 months. Guides that still describe an annual West Virginia inspection sticker, or a fee in the single digits, are out of date.
Enrolled HB 2310, 2023 Regular Session (West Virginia Legislature)January 1, 2016
Minimum coverageMinimum liability limits raised to 25/50/25
Committee Substitute for HB 2790 (2015 Regular Session) rewrote § 17D-4-2 so that, beginning January 1, 2016, proof of financial responsibility means $25,000 per person, $50,000 per accident for bodily injury and $25,000 for property damage, up from 20/40/10. A policy in force on December 31, 2015 at the old limits stayed good only until it expired or renewed, so no West Virginia policy carries 20/40/10 today. The same act relieved insurers of having to make a fresh uninsured or underinsured motorist offer when limits rose only to meet the new minimum.
Enrolled Committee Substitute for HB 2790, 2015 Regular Session (West Virginia Legislature)
What this list does and does not cover
Recorded here: changes to the rules this site tracks for West Virginia — liability minimums, SR-22 and proof-of-insurance requirements, penalties for driving uninsured, the fault system, what a lapse costs, new-resident deadlines and crash reporting. Each entry names the session law or statute that made the change and the date it took effect, not the date it was signed.
Not recorded: rate filings, individual insurer decisions, court rulings that do not change the text of the law, and changes to rules outside those seven subjects. A short list does not mean a quiet legislature — it means little moved in the parts of West Virginia law a driver has to comply with.
A change that has passed but has not yet taken effect is not shown as current anywhere on this site. It sits on the West Virginia pages as a dated pending value and replaces the current figure on the morning it comes into force. You can see every pending change across the country at the top of the national change feed, and the sources behind the West Virginia figures on its statute index.