---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establish narrow, clearly bounded guaranteed-issue rights for Medicare Supplement policies in West Virginia."
description: "Establish narrow, clearly bounded guaranteed-issue rights for Medicare Supplement policies in West Virginia."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 4869"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4869 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Human Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Green"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-28"
last_action: "2026-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7eea48ea-cf3b-4885-9a94-69ac9183803f"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4869&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "f37a82553b0d6187bbfb6d39a9aed51e447e54eb4bb26305ad35258e5f052715"
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 4869 (2026) — Establish narrow, clearly bounded guaranteed-issue rights for Medicare Supplement policies in West Virginia.

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4869%20sub1.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4869)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4869%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4869)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4869%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4869)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4869%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4869)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **90–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Green — primary (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Hall — cosponsor (person)
- Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
- Hite — cosponsor (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Kyle — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Statler — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-28** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2026-01-28** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-28** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2026-01-28** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-09** To House Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-24** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-26** By substitute, do pass
- **2026-02-27** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-02-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-03** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-03** Passed House (Roll No. 261) `passage`
- **2026-03-03** Communicated to Senate
- **2026-03-04** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2026-03-04** To Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-04** To Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-11** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-11** Immediate consideration
- **2026-03-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-03-12** On 2nd reading
- **2026-03-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-13** On 3rd reading
- **2026-03-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-13** Passed Senate (Roll No. 550) `passage`
- **2026-03-13** Communicated to House
- **2026-03-13** Completed legislative action
- **2026-03-25** To Governor 3/25/2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-14** To Governor 3/25/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/27/2026 `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 3/27/2026 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 3/27/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-29** Chapter 185, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7eea48ea-cf3b-4885-9a94-69ac9183803f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).