---
type: "Bill"
title: "Supplementing, amending, and decreasing appropriation to Insurance Commission"
description: "Supplementing, amending, and decreasing appropriation to Insurance Commission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 442"
citation: "West Virginia SB 442 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carmichael"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-28"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e92b13a5-d6b5-4854-bbb4-7f426bdbb125"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=442&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "dd6943b9d81cda8f3d9aa677a2d8cfff729739c62514b04f30474f93e6ab6ca9"
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 442 (2019) — Supplementing, amending, and decreasing appropriation to Insurance Commission

## 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=SB442%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=442)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB442%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=442)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Carmichael — primary (person)
- Prezioso — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-28** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-28** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-28** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-28** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-08** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-11** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-12** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-12** Passed Senate (Roll No. 116) `passage`
- **2019-02-12** Effective from passage (Roll No. 116)
- **2019-02-12** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-13** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-13** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-19** Do pass
- **2019-02-20** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-22** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-22** Passed House (Roll No. 254) `passage`
- **2019-02-22** Effective from passage (Roll No. 255)
- **2019-02-22** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-22** Completed legislative action
- **2019-02-23** House Message received
- **2019-03-01** To Governor 3/1/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-01** To Governor 3/1/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/7/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-08** Approved by Governor 3/7/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 22, 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/e92b13a5-d6b5-4854-bbb4-7f426bdbb125`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).