---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to distribution of premium tax proceeds to municipal policemen's and firemen's pension and relief funds"
description: "Relating to distribution of premium tax proceeds to municipal policemen's and firemen's pension and relief funds"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4601"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4601 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Graves"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-29"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ba46934-ce83-45dd-8c49-503c0f49a1e8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4601&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "023960390c6e3feda09603c22fe5baf26a1e73c62829faaa2336482159a51044"
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 4601 (2020) — Relating to distribution of premium tax proceeds to municipal policemen's and firemen's pension and relief funds

## 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=HB4601%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4601)
2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4601%20ORG.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4601)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Graves — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Pethtel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-29** Originating in House Pensions and Retirement
- **2020-01-29** Do pass
- **2020-01-30** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-30** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-31** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-31** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-03** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-03** Placed at foot of all bills
- **2020-02-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-03** Passed House (Roll No. 77) `passage`
- **2020-02-03** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-04** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-04** To Pensions
- **2020-02-04** To Pensions
- **2020-02-13** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-14** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-17** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-18** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-18** Passed Senate (Roll No. 175) `passage`
- **2020-02-18** Communicated to House
- **2020-02-18** Completed legislative action
- **2020-02-19** 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 75, 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/1ba46934-ce83-45dd-8c49-503c0f49a1e8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).