---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to insurance adjusters"
description: "Relating to insurance adjusters"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4502"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4502 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Westfall"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 41
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-23"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9989dbd7-523c-42bb-82b2-c6ccfeeacaf7"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4502&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "2bf35e56109492904ac853d478e88aacf0c2036193d80f7b1f8b49cc68617868"
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 4502 (2020) — Relating to insurance adjusters

## 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=HB4502%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4502)
2. **HB4502 S B_I AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4502 S B_I AM _1 adopted.htm)
3. **HB4502 S B_I AMT _1 3-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4502 S B_I AMT _1 3-2 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4502%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4502)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **93–5** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **93–6** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Westfall — primary (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-23** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-23** To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-23** 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. 120) `passage`
- **2020-02-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-10** To Banking and Insurance then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-10** To Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-03** Reported do pass with amend and title amend but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-03** 2nd reference dispensed
- **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`
- **2020-03-04** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-05** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-05** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 463) `passage`
- **2020-03-05** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-06** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-06** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 627)
- **2020-03-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-06** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-07** 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 201, 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/9989dbd7-523c-42bb-82b2-c6ccfeeacaf7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).