---
type: "Bill"
title: "Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act"
description: "Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4007"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4007 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rowan"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 44
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-08"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e29fd1bf-6464-4422-9d8a-6e36bf82ff0a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4007&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "d0ac03672cae0e51c90ed90f78fa6141c43fef9567411fc628efef4e467f62c5"
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 4007 (2020) — Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection 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=HB4007%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4007)
2. **HB4007 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4007 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm)
3. **HB4007 S JUD AMT _1 2-4 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4007 S JUD AMT _1 2-4 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4007%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4007)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **93–5** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **92–6** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rowan — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Bibby — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Hanna — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Kump — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Waxman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-08** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-08** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-08** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-08** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-10** Do pass
- **2020-01-13** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-15** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-15** Passed House (Roll No. 5) `passage`
- **2020-01-15** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-01-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-16** To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-16** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-31** Reported do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-31** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-05** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-06** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-07** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-02-10** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-10** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 101) `passage`
- **2020-02-10** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-02-18** House received Senate message
- **2020-02-18** House concurred in Senate amendment with amendment (Voice)
- **2020-02-18** Passed House (Roll No. 215) `passage`
- **2020-02-18** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-19** House Message received
- **2020-02-19** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 177)
- **2020-02-19** Communicated to House
- **2020-02-19** Completed legislative action
- **2020-02-20** House received Senate message
- **2020-02-27** To Governor 2/27/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-27** To Governor 2/27/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-28** To Governor 2/27/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-02** Approved by Governor 3/2/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-02** Approved by Governor 3/2/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-03** Approved by Governor 3/2/20 - House Journal
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 272, 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/e29fd1bf-6464-4422-9d8a-6e36bf82ff0a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).