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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to insurance"
+description: "Relating to insurance"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 4149"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4149 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Insurance"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Westfall"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 38
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-01-13"
+last_action: "2020-04-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/689f50f7-09fc-4b84-8693-d184475774c3"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4149&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "d132ab295569f118360c0d41cb970da6214d5525ff333c16c9a9f3f13740c34d"
+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 4149 (2020) — Relating to insurance
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4149%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4149)
+2. **HB4149 S B_I AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4149 S B_I AM _1 adopted.htm)
+3. **HB4149 S B_I AMT _1 2-17 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4149 S B_I AMT _1 2-17 adopted.htm)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4149%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4149)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **32–1** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Westfall — primary (person)
+- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
+- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
+- Hott — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
+- Kessinger — cosponsor (person)
+- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)
+- Queen — cosponsor (person)
+- Waxman — cosponsor (person)
+- Williams — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2020-01-13** To Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2020-01-13** To House Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-22** 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. 44) `passage`
+- **2020-01-27** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-01-28** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-01-28** To Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-28** To Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-18** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-19** On 1st reading
+- **2020-02-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-20** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-02-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-20** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-02-21** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-02-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-21** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 201) `passage`
+- **2020-02-21** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2020-02-27** House received Senate message
+- **2020-02-27** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 378)
+- **2020-02-27** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-02-27** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-02-28** House Message received
+- **2020-03-02** To Governor 3/2/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-02** To Governor 3/2/20 `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-02** To Governor 3/2/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/7/20 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/7/20 - Senate Journal
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/7/20 - House Journal
+- **2020-04-15** Chapter 194, 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/689f50f7-09fc-4b84-8693-d184475774c3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+