---
type: "Bill"
title: "Continuing the Foster Care Ombudsman"
description: "Continuing the Foster Care Ombudsman"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4094"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4094 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Juveniles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hill"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 47
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-10"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/694af099-cf0d-48cc-9bd6-4904b6ca8787"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4094&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "8989245b98d8f9075728d44245e893ae9ca306cf36be7c7e1e34a07564ebb9ee"
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 4094 (2020) — Continuing the Foster Care Ombudsman

## 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=HB4094%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4094)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4094%20SUB%20ENG.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4094)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4094%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4094)
4. **HB4094 S FAM AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4094 S FAM AM _1 adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4094%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4094)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hill — primary (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Fleischauer — cosponsor (person)
- Mandt — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Pushkin — cosponsor (person)
- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson, C. — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-10** To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-10** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-15** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-15** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-20** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-01-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-22** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-23** From Special Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on House Calendar
- **2020-01-28** On 2nd reading, House Calendar
- **2020-01-28** Placed on Special Calender
- **2020-01-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-28** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-01-29** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-29** Passed House (Roll No. 59) `passage`
- **2020-01-29** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-01-30** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-30** To Children and Families then Finance
- **2020-01-30** To Children and Families
- **2020-03-02** Reported do pass, with amendment, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-02** Immediate consideration
- **2020-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-02** On 2nd reading to Finance
- **2020-03-03** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-04** On 2nd reading
- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-04** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-05** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-05** Passed Senate (Roll No. 452) `passage`
- **2020-03-05** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-06** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-06** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 624)
- **2020-03-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-06** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **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** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 41, 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/694af099-cf0d-48cc-9bd6-4904b6ca8787`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).