---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the regulation of an internationally active insurance group"
description: "Relating to the regulation of an internationally active insurance group"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2480"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2480 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hott"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 39
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-17"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb36842d-02da-42b0-b828-4e4693706ce7"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2480&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "c290c04a8f74e0bcf08a36ee11051d469d78b7ccaffc34da09491df24c3b1a42"
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 2480 (2019) — Relating to the regulation of an internationally active insurance group

## 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=hb2480%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2480)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2480%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2480)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hott — primary (person)
- Azinger — cosponsor (person)
- Criss — cosponsor (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Graves — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Mandt — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Westfall — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-17** To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-17** To House Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-25** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2019-01-25** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-29** Do pass
- **2019-01-30** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-30** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-31** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-31** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-01** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-01** Passed House (Roll No. 65) `passage`
- **2019-02-01** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-04** House Message received
- **2019-02-04** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-04** To Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-04** To Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04** Reported do pass, with title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-05** On 1st reading
- **2019-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-06** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-07** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 396) `passage`
- **2019-03-07** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-08** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 658)
- **2019-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-25** To Governor 3/25/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 151, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cb36842d-02da-42b0-b828-4e4693706ce7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).