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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Disposition of funds from certain oil and natural gas wells due to unknown or unlocatable interest owners"
+description: "Disposition of funds from certain oil and natural gas wells due to unknown or unlocatable interest owners"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 4088"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4088 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Real and Personal Property"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Anderson"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-10"
+last_action: "2020-04-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/08d81c16-6f5e-473c-8664-233f599cc5a8"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4088&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "c3c150871c6d17417dab3a33483abe83a4a1ed803b4b4728e0fba21d0d821b79"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
+---
+
+# West Virginia HB 4088 (2020) — Disposition of funds from certain oil and natural gas wells due to unknown or unlocatable interest owners
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4088%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4088)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4088%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4088)
+3. **HB4088 S JUD AMT _1 3-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4088 S JUD AMT _1 3-3 adopted.htm)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4088%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4088)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **32–1** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Anderson — primary (person)
+- Cadle — cosponsor (person)
+- Hott — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly, J. — cosponsor (person)
+- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2020-01-10** To Energy then Finance
+- **2020-01-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2020-01-10** To House Energy `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-10** By substitute, do pass
+- **2020-02-10** 2nd reference dispensed
+- **2020-02-11** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-12** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-13** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-13** Passed House (Roll No. 169) `passage`
+- **2020-02-13** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-02-14** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-02-14** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-14** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-03** Reported do pass, with title amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2020-03-03** Immediate consideration
+- **2020-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-03-04** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-05** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-05** Passed Senate (Roll No. 451) `passage`
+- **2020-03-05** Title amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
+- **2020-03-05** Communicated to House
+- **2020-03-05** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-03-06** House received Senate message
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-19** To Governor 3/19/20 `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
+- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-04-15** Chapter 143, Acts, Regular Session, 2020
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/08d81c16-6f5e-473c-8664-233f599cc5a8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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