---
type: "Bill"
title: "Accounting for state funds distributed to volunteer and part-volunteer fire companies and departments"
description: "Accounting for state funds distributed to volunteer and part-volunteer fire companies and departments"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4859"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4859 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Municipalities", "Public Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-11"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/731b4cec-ed42-454f-b331-f1869545debf"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4859&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "2951bd1cb587b37cb6868b2a2f5d283fc845481cd0bf41802c396956635b87fc"
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 4859 (2020) — Accounting for state funds distributed to volunteer and part-volunteer fire companies and departments

## 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=HB4859%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4859)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4859%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4859)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hanshaw — primary (person)
- Miley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-02-11** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-11** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-02-11** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** Do pass
- **2020-02-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-25** Passed House (Roll No. 326) `passage`
- **2020-02-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-26** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-02** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-02** Immediate consideration
- **2020-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-03** On 2nd reading
- **2020-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-04** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-04** Passed Senate (Roll No. 444) `passage`
- **2020-03-04** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-04** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-05** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-19** To Governor 3/19/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `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 302, 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/731b4cec-ed42-454f-b331-f1869545debf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).