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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Certificates of Insurance Act"
+description: "Certificates of Insurance Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 4466"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4466 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Insurance"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hott"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 43
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2020-01-22"
+last_action: "2020-04-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e16ab901-e452-4d34-a6d9-4debc7742273"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4466&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "eae3cab606955bf388b4b1c7dbd550d698bffa1604059365eae5c2f3b7bc6f7b"
+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 4466 (2020) — Certificates of Insurance Act
+
+## 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=HB4466%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4466)
+2. **HB4466 S B_I AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4466 S B_I AM _1 adopted.htm)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4466%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4466)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **94–4** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–2** (pass) · lower
+- EFFECT JULY 1, 2020 — **92–5** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hott — primary (person)
+- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
+- Howell — cosponsor (person)
+- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
+- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)
+- Westfall — cosponsor (person)
+- Williams — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-22** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2020-01-22** To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-22** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2020-01-22** To House Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-28** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
+- **2020-01-28** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-04** Do pass
+- **2020-02-05** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-06** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-07** Passed House (Roll No. 118) `passage`
+- **2020-02-07** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-02-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-02-10** To Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-10** To Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-26** Reported do pass, with amendments and title amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-27** On 1st reading
+- **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 amendments 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 with amended title (Roll No. 379) `passage`
+- **2020-03-02** Effective July 1, 2020 (Roll No. 379)
+- **2020-03-02** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2020-03-04** House received Senate message
+- **2020-03-04** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 481)
+- **2020-03-04** Effective July 1, 2020 (Roll No. 482)
+- **2020-03-04** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-03-04** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-03-05** House Message received
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/13/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-13** To Governor 3/13/20 `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/13/20 - House 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 198, 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/e16ab901-e452-4d34-a6d9-4debc7742273`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+