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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Creating the Oil and Gas Abandoned Well Plugging Fund"
+description: "Creating the Oil and Gas Abandoned Well Plugging Fund"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 4090"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4090 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Natural Resources", "Taxation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Anderson"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-01-10"
+last_action: "2020-04-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b7a31833-e602-4e34-9cfa-89adc4aa3476"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4090&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "b5c5172682cbabd5716aed5a61790cf8742307f7ff01e9180548959bdd49eb57"
+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 4090 (2020) — Creating the Oil and Gas Abandoned Well Plugging Fund
+
+## 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=HB4090%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4090)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4090%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4090)
+3. **HB4090 S FIN AM _1 2-25 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4090 S FIN AM _1 2-25 adopted.htm)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4090%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4090)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **91–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Anderson — primary (person)
+- Boggs — cosponsor (person)
+- Cadle — cosponsor (person)
+- Evans — cosponsor (person)
+- Graves — cosponsor (person)
+- Hartman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hott — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly, J. — cosponsor (person)
+- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
+- Pethtel — 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`
+- **2020-01-15** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-15** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-31** By substitute, do pass
+- **2020-02-03** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-04** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-05** Passed House (Roll No. 94) `passage`
+- **2020-02-05** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-02-06** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-02-06** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-06** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-27** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-27** Immediate consideration
+- **2020-02-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-28** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-28** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-02-29** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-02-29** Laid over on 3rd reading 2/29/20
+- **2020-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-02** Passed Senate (Roll No. 372) `passage`
+- **2020-03-02** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2020-03-03** House received Senate message
+- **2020-03-03** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 471)
+- **2020-03-03** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-03-03** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-03-04** House Message received
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/12/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/12/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-12** To Governor 3/12/20 `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/23/20 - Senate Journal
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/23/20 - House Journal
+- **2020-03-23** Approved by Governor 3/23/20 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-04-15** Chapter 133, 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/b7a31833-e602-4e34-9cfa-89adc4aa3476`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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