---
type: "Bill"
title: "Certificates of Insurance Act"
description: "Certificates of Insurance Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4466"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4466 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hott"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 43
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-01-22"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e16ab901-e452-4d34-a6d9-4debc7742273"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4466&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "eae3cab606955bf388b4b1c7dbd550d698bffa1604059365eae5c2f3b7bc6f7b"
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 4466 (2020) — Certificates of Insurance Act

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4466%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4466)
2. **HB4466 S B_I AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4466 S B_I AM _1 adopted.htm)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4466%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4466)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **94–4** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–2** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT JULY 1, 2020 — **92–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hott — primary (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Howell — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Westfall — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-22** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-22** To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-22** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-22** To House Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-28** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2020-01-28** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-04** Do pass
- **2020-02-05** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-06** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-07** Passed House (Roll No. 118) `passage`
- **2020-02-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-10** To Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-10** To Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-26** Reported do pass, with amendments and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-27** On 1st reading
- **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 amendments 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 with amended title (Roll No. 379) `passage`
- **2020-03-02** Effective July 1, 2020 (Roll No. 379)
- **2020-03-02** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-04** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-04** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 481)
- **2020-03-04** Effective July 1, 2020 (Roll No. 482)
- **2020-03-04** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-04** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-05** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/13/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-13** To Governor 3/13/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/13/20 - House Journal `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 198, 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/e16ab901-e452-4d34-a6d9-4debc7742273`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).