---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to adoption"
description: "Relating to adoption"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4129"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4129 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Domestic Relations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Summers"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 36
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-13"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ce9626eb-daea-4fbf-b68a-6c077f161b60"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4129&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "a91f0efb8eec8fa92f66dd5a0c553a616e7757047e9ad3b5c694b56ab5dd0d20"
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 4129 (2020) — Relating to adoption

## 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=HB4129%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4129)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4129%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4129)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4129%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4129)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Summers — primary (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Estep-Burton — cosponsor (person)
- Fleischauer — cosponsor (person)
- Hanna — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson, C. — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-13** To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-13** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-17** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-17** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-22** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-01-23** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-27** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-27** Passed House (Roll No. 42) `passage`
- **2020-01-27** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-01-28** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-28** To Children and Families
- **2020-01-28** To Children and Families
- **2020-02-07** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-10** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-11** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-12** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-12** Passed Senate (Roll No. 134) `passage`
- **2020-02-12** Communicated to House
- **2020-02-12** Completed legislative action
- **2020-02-13** House received Senate message
- **2020-02-18** To Governor 2/18/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-19** To Governor 2/18/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-18** To Governor 2/18/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-24** Approved by Governor 2/24/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-02-24** Approved by Governor 2/24/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-02-25** Approved by Governor 2/24/20 - House Journal
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 103, 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/ce9626eb-daea-4fbf-b68a-6c077f161b60`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).