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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Creating the shared table initiative for senior citizens who suffer from food insecurity"
+description: "Creating the shared table initiative for senior citizens who suffer from food insecurity"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 4447"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4447 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Human Services"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Lavender-Bowe"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 38
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-21"
+last_action: "2020-04-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b97a3ab-be36-4330-b5e3-f048c44a3d85"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4447&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "41a57d6cfe32e35098de1ee85ba0b78f28f7b63a2891df4178b778b630b666df"
+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 4447 (2020) — Creating the shared table initiative for senior citizens who suffer from food insecurity
+
+## 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=HB4447%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4447)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4447%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4447)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Lavender-Bowe — primary (person)
+- Boggs — cosponsor (person)
+- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
+- Estep-Burton — cosponsor (person)
+- Evans — cosponsor (person)
+- Graves — cosponsor (person)
+- Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
+- Pack — cosponsor (person)
+- Paynter — cosponsor (person)
+- Walker — cosponsor (person)
+- Zukoff — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-21** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2020-01-21** To Senior, Children, and Family Issues then Government Organization
+- **2020-01-21** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2020-01-21** To House Senior, Children, and Family Issues `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-13** Do pass, but first to Government Organization
+- **2020-02-13** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-20** Do pass
+- **2020-02-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-25** Passed House (Roll No. 316) `passage`
+- **2020-02-25** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-02-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-02-26** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-26** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-03** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2020-03-03** Immediate consideration
+- **2020-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-03-04** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-03-04** Removed from calendar by Rules Committee
+- **2020-03-05** Returned to calendar by Rules Committee
+- **2020-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-06** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-06** Deferred until foot of 3rd
+- **2020-03-06** Passed Senate (Roll No. 519) `passage`
+- **2020-03-06** Communicated to House
+- **2020-03-06** Completed legislative action
+- **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** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `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 282, 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/2b97a3ab-be36-4330-b5e3-f048c44a3d85`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+