---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to transferring remaining funds from the Volunteer Fire Department Workers' Compensation Premium Subsidy Fund"
description: "Relating to transferring remaining funds from the Volunteer Fire Department Workers' Compensation Premium Subsidy Fund"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4409"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4409 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Municipalities", "Public Safety", "Workers Compensation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maynard"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 41
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-17"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/66c5ace5-8edf-47fe-9dec-1df2eb5c8bc8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4409&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "8218ca0db1779ce4158532009dd7182836cc79d43965859e4a1e1099c0e9c800"
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 4409 (2020) — Relating to transferring remaining funds from the Volunteer Fire Department Workers' Compensation Premium Subsidy Fund

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4409%20ENG.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4409)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4409%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4409)
3. **HB4409 HFA MAYNARD AND SPONAUGLE 2-21 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/HB4409 HFA MAYNARD AND SPONAUGLE 2-21 _1 adopted.htm)
4. **HB4409 S FIN AM _1 2-28 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4409 S FIN AM _1 2-28 adopted.htm)
5. **HB4409 S FIN AMT _1 2-28 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4409 S FIN AMT _1 2-28 adopted.htm)
6. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4409%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4409)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maynard — primary (person)
- Graves — cosponsor (person)
- Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
- Householder — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Linville — cosponsor (person)
- Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-17** To Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services then Finance
- **2020-01-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-17** To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-24** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2020-01-24** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** 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`
- **2020-02-24** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-02-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-25** Passed House (Roll No. 313) `passage`
- **2020-02-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-26** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-29** Reported do pass, with amendments and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-02** On 1st reading
- **2020-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-03** On 2nd reading
- **2020-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-03** Committee amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-04** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-04** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 428) `passage`
- **2020-03-04** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-05** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-05** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 611)
- **2020-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-05** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-06** 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 298, 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/66c5ace5-8edf-47fe-9dec-1df2eb5c8bc8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).