---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the form for making offer of optional uninsured and underinsured coverage by insurers"
description: "Relating to the form for making offer of optional uninsured and underinsured coverage by insurers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2617"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2617 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Westfall"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 44
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-01-23"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3896caab-74e2-4bba-b72e-586ecdf13bc4"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2617&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "57b47f3fce26133eddfa249c5aecc9b8e1fbb6ace8a91d56b3456c8a4e07560f"
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 2617 (2019) — Relating to the form for making offer of optional uninsured and underinsured coverage by insurers

## 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=HB2617%20SUB.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2617)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2617%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2617)
3. **HB2617 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2617 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2617%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2617)

## Votes

- CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDS — **81–18** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **93–6** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **27–7** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **95–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Westfall — primary (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-23** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-23** To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-23** To House Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-15** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2019-02-15** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** By substitute, do pass
- **2019-02-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-22** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-22** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 2/25/19
- **2019-02-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-26** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-26** Passed House (Roll No. 315) `passage`
- **2019-02-26** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-27** House Message received
- **2019-02-27** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-27** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-04** Immediate consideration
- **2019-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-05** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-05** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-06** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-06** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 380) `passage`
- **2019-03-06** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-07** House concurred in Senate amendment (Roll No. 555)
- **2019-03-07** Passed House (Roll No. 556) `passage`
- **2019-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-08** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/21/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/21/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-21** To Governor 3/21/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 152, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3896caab-74e2-4bba-b72e-586ecdf13bc4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).