---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the West Virginia Safe Mortgage Licensing Act"
description: "Relating to the West Virginia Safe Mortgage Licensing Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 4285"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4285 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Corporations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Frich"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 38
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-24"
last_action: "2018-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f26a1aae-a865-4d7c-aa02-5ecea0a080ae"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4285&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "be7f15754ea8c682966c972bc4e5ae7c11570c561cdcf73a42f3df5e10e1a5c5"
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 4285 (2018) — Relating to the West Virginia Safe Mortgage Licensing 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=hb4285%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4285)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4285%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4285)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **90–5** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Frich — primary (person)
- Evans, A. — cosponsor (person)
- Westfall — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-24** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-01-24** To Banking and Insurance then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-01-24** To House Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-05** Do pass with title amendment, but first to Finance
- **2018-02-05** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** With title amendment, do pass
- **2018-02-16** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-16** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-19** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-20** Passed House (Roll No. 163) `passage`
- **2018-02-20** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2018-02-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-02-21** House Message received
- **2018-02-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-21** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-21** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28** On 1st reading
- **2018-02-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-01** On 2nd reading
- **2018-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-02** On 3rd reading
- **2018-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-02** Passed Senate (Roll No. 293) `passage`
- **2018-03-02** Communicated to House
- **2018-03-02** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-02** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-08** To Governor 3/8/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-09** To Governor 3/8/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-08** To Governor 3/8/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - House Journal
- **2018-03-22** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-04-16** Chapter 185, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f26a1aae-a865-4d7c-aa02-5ecea0a080ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).