---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prohibiting certain sex offenders from being in a supervisory position over children"
description: "Prohibiting certain sex offenders from being in a supervisory position over children"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4166"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4166 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Foster"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-14"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11d20ffe-33b3-4eb5-8bc7-59287d77a7ce"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4166&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ade1e3475992e435f9be4bb0e1e0cb2e52efca4a8ac8ade859d3eaa62fd9789e"
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 4166 (2020) — Prohibiting certain sex offenders from being in a supervisory position over children

## 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=HB4166%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4166)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4166%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4166)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Foster — primary (person)
- Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
- Bibby — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Kessinger — cosponsor (person)
- Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)
- Waxman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-14** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-14** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-22** Do pass
- **2020-01-23** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-27** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-27** Passed House (Roll No. 45) `passage`
- **2020-01-27** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-01-28** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-28** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-28** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-12** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-13** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-14** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-17** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-17** Passed Senate (Roll No. 163) `passage`
- **2020-02-17** Communicated to House
- **2020-02-17** Completed legislative action
- **2020-02-18** House received Senate message
- **2020-02-28** To Governor 2/28/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-28** To Governor 2/28/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-28** To Governor 2/28/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-05** Approved by Governor 3/5/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-06** Approved by Governor 3/5/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-05** Approved by Governor 3/5/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 100, 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/11d20ffe-33b3-4eb5-8bc7-59287d77a7ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).