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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to military service as factor in certain insurance coverage rates"
+description: "Relating to military service as factor in certain insurance coverage rates"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 849"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 849 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Insurance"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Azinger"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2020-02-24"
+last_action: "2020-04-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d8edf3e4-75bf-48d0-99e3-8ed1fa0214bc"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=849&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "1ede4b4c473ed4225c04853ea2c6f613e94c6c8edd751333c3a009efcd5f258d"
+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 SB 849 (2020) — Relating to military service as factor in certain insurance coverage rates
+
+## 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=sb849%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=849)
+2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb849%20org.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=849)
+3. **SB849 HFA SHOTT 2-28 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB849 HFA SHOTT 2-28 _1 adopted.htm)
+4. **SB849 SFA TAKUBO 3-2 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB849 SFA TAKUBO 3-2 _1 adopted.htm)
+5. **SB849 SFAT TAKUBO 3-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB849 SFAT TAKUBO 3-2 adopted.htm)
+6. **SB849 Shott HFA AM adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB849 Shott HFA AM adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **92–0** (pass) · lower
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Azinger — primary (person)
+- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
+- Beach — cosponsor (person)
+- Clements — cosponsor (person)
+- Cline — cosponsor (person)
+- Hardesty — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
+- Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
+- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
+- Pitsenbarger — cosponsor (person)
+- Romano — cosponsor (person)
+- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Trump — cosponsor (person)
+- Weld — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-02-24** Originating in Senate Judiciary
+- **2020-02-24** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-24** Immediate consideration
+- **2020-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-25** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-26** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-26** Passed Senate (Roll No. 338) `passage`
+- **2020-02-26** Effective from passage (Roll No. 338)
+- **2020-02-26** Ordered to House
+- **2020-02-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2020-02-27** Immediate consideration
+- **2020-02-27** Reference dispensed
+- **2020-02-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-28** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-02-29** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-29** Passed House (Roll No. 433) `passage`
+- **2020-02-29** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-02-29** Effective from passage (Roll No. 434)
+- **2020-02-29** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-03-03** House Message received
+- **2020-03-03** Senate amends House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 389)
+- **2020-03-03** Effective from passage (Roll No. 389)
+- **2020-03-03** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2020-03-05** House received Senate message
+- **2020-03-05** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 618)
+- **2020-03-05** Effective from passage (Roll No. 619)
+- **2020-03-05** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-03-05** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-03-06** House Message received
+- **2020-03-12** To Governor 3/12/20 `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/12/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/12/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
+- **2020-04-14** Chapter 189, 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/d8edf3e4-75bf-48d0-99e3-8ed1fa0214bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+