---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increasing the replacement costs required of a person causing injury or death of game or protected species"
description: "Increasing the replacement costs required of a person causing injury or death of game or protected species"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4513"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4513 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Atkinson"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 36
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-23"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f1c93010-9b55-44b0-b145-03277cc06a59"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4513&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "69baf6c29dbb32c44c39d17b2634ac03c85003ba7c56dfb863475c4a73cd05e3"
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 4513 (2020) — Increasing the replacement costs required of a person causing injury or death of game or protected species

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4513%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4513)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4513%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4513)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4513%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4513)

## Votes

- Passage — **29–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **86–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Atkinson — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Cadle — cosponsor (person)
- Dean — cosponsor (person)
- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Tomblin — cosponsor (person)
- Westfall — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-23** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-23** To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-23** To House Agriculture and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-04** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-04** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-11** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-02-12** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-12** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-13** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-14** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-14** Passed House (Roll No. 191) `passage`
- **2020-02-14** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-17** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-17** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-17** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-27** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-28** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-29** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-29** Passed Senate (Roll No. 365) `passage`
- **2020-02-29** Communicated to House
- **2020-02-29** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-02** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-05** To Governor 3/5/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-05** To Governor 3/5/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-05** To Governor 3/5/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 235, 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/f1c93010-9b55-44b0-b145-03277cc06a59`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).