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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the establishment of an insurance innovation process"
+description: "Relating to the establishment of an insurance innovation process"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "HB 2221"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2221 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Insurance"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Westfall"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 42
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-02-10"
+last_action: "2021-05-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/874e5a99-1739-4e10-a43f-d50ef190f8d1"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2221&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "a311d9034bc8699bdb05497e146ba1d0c765caf5d69e117c295721093ab0a1d7"
+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 2221 (2021) — Relating to the establishment of an insurance innovation process
+
+## 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=HB2221%20SUB.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2221)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2221%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2221)
+3. **HB2221 S B_I AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB2221 S B_I AM _1 adopted.htm)
+4. **HB2221 S B_I AMT _1 3-22 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB2221 S B_I AMT _1 3-22 adopted.htm)
+5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2221%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2221)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Westfall — primary (person)
+- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
+- Capito — cosponsor (person)
+- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
+- Hott — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
+- Keaton — cosponsor (person)
+- Pack, L. — cosponsor (person)
+- Pritt — cosponsor (person)
+- Reed — cosponsor (person)
+- Williams — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2021-02-10** To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2021-02-10** To House Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
+- **2021-02-19** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
+- **2021-02-19** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-03** By substitute, do pass
+- **2021-03-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2021-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2021-03-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2021-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-03-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2021-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-03-08** Passed House (Roll No. 95) `passage`
+- **2021-03-08** Communicated to Senate
+- **2021-03-09** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2021-03-09** To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-09** To Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-23** Reported do pass with amend and title amend but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-23** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-06** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-04-07** On 1st reading
+- **2021-04-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2021-04-08** On 2nd reading
+- **2021-04-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-04-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2021-04-09** On 3rd reading
+- **2021-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-04-09** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 407) `passage`
+- **2021-04-09** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2021-04-10** House received Senate message
+- **2021-04-10** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 588)
+- **2021-04-10** Communicated to Senate
+- **2021-04-10** Completed legislative action
+- **2021-04-10** House Message received
+- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/22/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-22** To Governor 4/22/21 `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/22/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 - Senate Journal
+- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 - House Journal
+- **2021-04-26** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 `executive-signature`
+- **2021-05-20** Chapter 163, Acts, Regular Session, 2021
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/874e5a99-1739-4e10-a43f-d50ef190f8d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+