---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the West Virginia Physicians Mutual Insurance Company"
description: "Relating to the West Virginia Physicians Mutual Insurance Company"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 4400"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4400 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Westfall"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 39
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-01"
last_action: "2018-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cea8bd63-a0cc-4dbd-a0b7-0f07b72d2122"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4400&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "23bae14c63d17a9861f8f2e9c00772a70bfca10b9d474e37e124ff7832a34b1d"
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 4400 (2018) — Relating to the West Virginia Physicians Mutual Insurance Company

## 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=HB4400%20SUB.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4400)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4400%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4400)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4400%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4400)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Westfall — primary (person)
- Capito — cosponsor (person)
- Criss — cosponsor (person)
- Frich — cosponsor (person)
- Hartman — cosponsor (person)
- Lane — cosponsor (person)
- Shott — cosponsor (person)
- Upson — cosponsor (person)
- Walters — cosponsor (person)
- White — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-01** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-02-01** To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-01** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-02-01** To House Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-09** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-09** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-13** By substitute, do pass
- **2018-02-14** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-14** Postponed on 1st reading, Special Calendar, until 2/15/18
- **2018-02-15** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-15** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-16** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-19** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-19** Passed House (Roll No. 155) `passage`
- **2018-02-19** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-02-20** House Message received
- **2018-02-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-20** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-20** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-03** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-05** On 1st reading
- **2018-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-06** On 2nd reading
- **2018-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-07** On 3rd reading
- **2018-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 388) `passage`
- **2018-03-07** Communicated to House
- **2018-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-16** To Governor 3/16/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/16/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/16/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/20/18 - House Journal
- **2018-03-20** Approved by Governor 3/20/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/20/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-04-16** Chapter 132, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cea8bd63-a0cc-4dbd-a0b7-0f07b72d2122`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).