---
type: "Bill"
title: "West Virginia Mutual to Mutual Insurance Holding Company Act"
description: "West Virginia Mutual to Mutual Insurance Holding Company Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4477"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4477 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Westfall"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 44
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-22"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e38cd445-b876-4574-9e7a-e4e9a59f5216"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4477&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "5c8924a76bcdbdcf78c311d10201a98947020591080bf9bc10804dff0e227b75"
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 4477 (2020) — West Virginia Mutual to Mutual Insurance Holding Company 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=HB4477%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4477)
2. **HB4477 S JUD AMT _2 2-17 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4477 S JUD AMT _2 2-17 adopted.htm)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4477%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4477)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Westfall — primary (person)
- Criss — cosponsor (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Householder — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-22** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-22** To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-22** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-22** To House Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-28** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2020-01-28** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-04** Do pass
- **2020-02-05** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-06** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-07** Passed House (Roll No. 119) `passage`
- **2020-02-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-10** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-10** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-19** Reported do pass, with title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-20** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-21** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-24** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-24** Laid over on 3rd reading 2/24/20
- **2020-02-25** Laid over on 3rd reading 2/25/20
- **2020-02-26** Laid over on 3rd reading 2/26/20
- **2020-02-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-27** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 344) `passage`
- **2020-02-27** Effective from passage (Roll No. 344)
- **2020-02-27** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-02-28** House received Senate message
- **2020-02-28** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 388)
- **2020-02-28** Effective from passage (Roll No. 389)
- **2020-02-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-28** Completed legislative action
- **2020-02-29** House Message received
- **2020-03-03** To Governor 3/3/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-03** To Governor 3/3/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-03** To Governor 3/3/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 199, 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/e38cd445-b876-4574-9e7a-e4e9a59f5216`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).