---
type: "Bill"
title: "Removing the specific mandate of the Board of Risk and Insurance Management to purchase liability insurance for the Division of Corrections"
description: "Removing the specific mandate of the Board of Risk and Insurance Management to purchase liability insurance for the Division of Corrections"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4496"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4496 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Corrections", "Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shott"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 33
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-23"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a42e00b-0a63-4837-8e84-d30ffc23160d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4496&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "0d63ca50b4348fa27056ca7706bd37677487a6d81916cd29fc1cc58b41c8a006"
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 4496 (2020) — Removing the specific mandate of the Board of Risk and Insurance Management to purchase liability insurance for the Division of Corrections

## 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=HB4496%20ENG.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4496)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4496%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4496)
3. **HB4496 HFA SHOTT _1 1-29 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/HB4496 HFA SHOTT _1 1-29 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4496%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4496)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Shott — primary (person)
- Brown, N. — cosponsor (person)
- Criss — cosponsor (person)
- Fast — cosponsor (person)
- Graves — cosponsor (person)
- Howell — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Mandt — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-23** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-23** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-23** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-27** Do pass
- **2020-01-28** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-29** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-29** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-01-30** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-30** Passed House (Roll No. 65) `passage`
- **2020-01-30** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-01-31** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-31** Immediate consideration
- **2020-01-31** Committee reference dispensed
- **2020-01-31** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-03** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-04** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-04** Passed Senate (Roll No. 63) `passage`
- **2020-02-04** Communicated to House
- **2020-02-04** Completed legislative action
- **2020-02-05** House received Senate message
- **2020-02-11** To Governor 2/11/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-13** To Governor 2/11/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-11** To Governor 2/11/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-17** Approved by Governor 2/17/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-02-18** Approved by Governor 2/17/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-02-18** Approved by Governor 2/17/20 - House Journal
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 200, 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/4a42e00b-0a63-4837-8e84-d30ffc23160d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).