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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to adoption"
+description: "Relating to adoption"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 4129"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4129 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Domestic Relations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Summers"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-13"
+last_action: "2020-04-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ce9626eb-daea-4fbf-b68a-6c077f161b60"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4129&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "a91f0efb8eec8fa92f66dd5a0c553a616e7757047e9ad3b5c694b56ab5dd0d20"
+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 4129 (2020) — Relating to adoption
+
+## 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=HB4129%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4129)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4129%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4129)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4129%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4129)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Summers — primary (person)
+- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
+- Estep-Burton — cosponsor (person)
+- Fleischauer — cosponsor (person)
+- Hanna — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Pack — cosponsor (person)
+- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
+- Thompson, C. — cosponsor (person)
+- Walker — cosponsor (person)
+- Worrell — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2020-01-13** To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2020-01-13** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-17** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
+- **2020-01-17** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-22** By substitute, do pass
+- **2020-01-23** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-01-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-01-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-01-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-01-27** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-01-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-01-27** Passed House (Roll No. 42) `passage`
+- **2020-01-27** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-01-28** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-01-28** To Children and Families
+- **2020-01-28** To Children and Families
+- **2020-02-07** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-10** On 1st reading
+- **2020-02-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-11** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-02-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-12** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-02-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-12** Passed Senate (Roll No. 134) `passage`
+- **2020-02-12** Communicated to House
+- **2020-02-12** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-02-13** House received Senate message
+- **2020-02-18** To Governor 2/18/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-02-19** To Governor 2/18/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-02-18** To Governor 2/18/20 `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-02-24** Approved by Governor 2/24/20 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-02-24** Approved by Governor 2/24/20 - Senate Journal
+- **2020-02-25** Approved by Governor 2/24/20 - House Journal
+- **2020-04-15** Chapter 103, 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/ce9626eb-daea-4fbf-b68a-6c077f161b60`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+