---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the powers of the Public Service Commission and the regulation of natural gas utilities"
description: "Relating to the powers of the Public Service Commission and the regulation of natural gas utilities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4661"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4661 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Energy"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anderson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-03"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ba1db7b7-0336-449e-b4ce-59f27a531749"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4661&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "a78646945cead58a2853c20731c11bd8e0cd0accce6e9c2d41bac95704bacadf"
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 4661 (2020) — Relating to the powers of the Public Service Commission and the regulation of natural gas utilities

## 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=HB4661%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4661)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4661%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4661)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Anderson — primary (person)
- Azinger — cosponsor (person)
- Hartman — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Martin, C. — cosponsor (person)
- Martin, P. — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Pethtel — cosponsor (person)
- Storch — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-03** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-02-03** To Energy
- **2020-02-03** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-02-03** To House Energy `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-05** Do pass
- **2020-02-06** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-10** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-10** Passed House (Roll No. 132) `passage`
- **2020-02-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-11** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-11** To Energy, Industry, and Mining
- **2020-02-11** To Energy, Industry, and Mining
- **2020-02-19** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-20** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-21** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-24** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-24** Laid over on 3rd reading 2/24/20
- **2020-02-25** Laid over on 3rd reading 2/25/20
- **2020-02-26** Laid over on 3rd reading 2/26/20
- **2020-02-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-27** Passed Senate (Roll No. 346) `passage`
- **2020-02-27** Communicated to House
- **2020-02-27** Completed legislative action
- **2020-02-28** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-03** To Governor 3/3/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-03** To Governor 3/3/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-03** To Governor 3/3/20 `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 307, 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/ba1db7b7-0336-449e-b4ce-59f27a531749`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).