---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating the Oil and Gas Abandoned Well Plugging Fund"
description: "Creating the Oil and Gas Abandoned Well Plugging Fund"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4090"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4090 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources", "Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 41
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-10"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b7a31833-e602-4e34-9cfa-89adc4aa3476"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4090&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "b5c5172682cbabd5716aed5a61790cf8742307f7ff01e9180548959bdd49eb57"
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 4090 (2020) — Creating the Oil and Gas Abandoned Well Plugging Fund

## 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=HB4090%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4090)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4090%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4090)
3. **HB4090 S FIN AM _1 2-25 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4090 S FIN AM _1 2-25 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4090%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4090)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Anderson — primary (person)
- Boggs — cosponsor (person)
- Cadle — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Graves — cosponsor (person)
- Hartman — cosponsor (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Pethtel — cosponsor (person)
- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-10** To Energy then Finance
- **2020-01-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-10** To House Energy `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-15** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-15** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-31** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-02-03** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-04** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-05** Passed House (Roll No. 94) `passage`
- **2020-02-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-06** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-06** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-06** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-27** Immediate consideration
- **2020-02-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-28** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-28** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-02-29** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-29** Laid over on 3rd reading 2/29/20
- **2020-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-02** Passed Senate (Roll No. 372) `passage`
- **2020-03-02** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-03** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-03** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 471)
- **2020-03-03** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-03** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-04** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/12/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/12/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-12** To Governor 3/12/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/23/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/23/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-23** Approved by Governor 3/23/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 133, 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/b7a31833-e602-4e34-9cfa-89adc4aa3476`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).