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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Continuing the Foster Care Ombudsman"
+description: "Continuing the Foster Care Ombudsman"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 4094"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4094 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Juveniles"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 47
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-01-10"
+last_action: "2020-04-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/694af099-cf0d-48cc-9bd6-4904b6ca8787"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4094&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "8989245b98d8f9075728d44245e893ae9ca306cf36be7c7e1e34a07564ebb9ee"
+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 4094 (2020) — Continuing the Foster Care Ombudsman
+
+## 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=HB4094%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4094)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4094%20SUB%20ENG.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4094)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4094%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4094)
+4. **HB4094 S FAM AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4094 S FAM AM _1 adopted.htm)
+5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4094%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4094)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hill — primary (person)
+- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
+- Fleischauer — cosponsor (person)
+- Mandt — cosponsor (person)
+- Pack — cosponsor (person)
+- Pushkin — cosponsor (person)
+- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
+- Summers — cosponsor (person)
+- Thompson, C. — cosponsor (person)
+- Walker — cosponsor (person)
+- Worrell — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2020-01-10** To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2020-01-10** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-15** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-15** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-20** By substitute, do pass
+- **2020-01-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-01-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-01-22** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-01-23** From Special Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on House Calendar
+- **2020-01-28** On 2nd reading, House Calendar
+- **2020-01-28** Placed on Special Calender
+- **2020-01-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-01-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-01-28** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-01-29** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-01-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-01-29** Passed House (Roll No. 59) `passage`
+- **2020-01-29** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-01-30** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-01-30** To Children and Families then Finance
+- **2020-01-30** To Children and Families
+- **2020-03-02** Reported do pass, with amendment, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
+- **2020-03-02** Immediate consideration
+- **2020-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-03-02** On 2nd reading to Finance
+- **2020-03-03** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2020-03-04** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-04** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-03-05** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-05** Passed Senate (Roll No. 452) `passage`
+- **2020-03-05** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2020-03-06** House received Senate message
+- **2020-03-06** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 624)
+- **2020-03-06** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-03-06** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-03-07** House Message received
+- **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 41, 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/694af099-cf0d-48cc-9bd6-4904b6ca8787`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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