---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the collection of assessments and the priority of liens on property within a resort area"
description: "Relating to the collection of assessments and the priority of liens on property within a resort area"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4529"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4529 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County Officials"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Criss"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 38
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-24"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05bea7e9-d0b1-45aa-a321-bc9a919e6051"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4529&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "58f6f7c7ea91bd7123872e98f34fc83c4803c02a14195feb578f3b637af592eb"
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 4529 (2020) — Relating to the collection of assessments and the priority of liens on property within a resort area

## 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=HB4529%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4529)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4529%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4529)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **90–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Criss — primary (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-24** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-24** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-24** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-17** Do pass
- **2020-02-18** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-19** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-20** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-20** Passed House (Roll No. 254) `passage`
- **2020-02-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-29** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-02** On 2nd reading
- **2020-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-02** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-03** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-03** Passed Senate (Roll No. 403) `passage`
- **2020-03-03** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-03** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-03** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 475)
- **2020-03-03** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-03** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-04** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/12/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/12/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-12** To Governor 3/12/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-24** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 144, 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/05bea7e9-d0b1-45aa-a321-bc9a919e6051`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).