---
type: "Bill"
title: "Exempting certain persons from heating, ventilating, and cooling system licensing requirements"
description: "Exempting certain persons from heating, ventilating, and cooling system licensing requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4360"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4360 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Foster"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 36
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-15"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a1bac2f0-3d3f-4d14-aed0-fcab202101ac"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4360&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "f47b9b0969bb7d0aeb978d64d0bbe481ff837908a5f494fdc78de7bea39134ef"
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 4360 (2020) — Exempting certain persons from heating, ventilating, and cooling system licensing requirements

## 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=HB4360%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4360)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4360%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4360)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4360%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4360)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **63–35** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **18–15** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Foster — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Householder — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Martin, C. — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Waxman — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-15** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-15** To Industry and Labor then Government Organization
- **2020-01-15** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-15** To House Industry and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** With amendment, do pass, but first to Government Organization `committee-passage`
- **2020-01-23** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-02-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-25** Passed House (Roll No. 310) `passage`
- **2020-02-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-26** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-03** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-03** Immediate consideration
- **2020-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-04** On 2nd reading
- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-05** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-05** Passed Senate (Roll No. 455) `passage`
- **2020-03-05** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-05** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-06** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/13/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/13/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-13** To Governor 3/13/20 `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 248, 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/a1bac2f0-3d3f-4d14-aed0-fcab202101ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).