---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to military service as factor in certain insurance coverage rates"
description: "Relating to military service as factor in certain insurance coverage rates"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 849"
citation: "West Virginia SB 849 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Azinger"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 41
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-02-24"
last_action: "2020-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d8edf3e4-75bf-48d0-99e3-8ed1fa0214bc"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=849&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "1ede4b4c473ed4225c04853ea2c6f613e94c6c8edd751333c3a009efcd5f258d"
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 SB 849 (2020) — Relating to military service as factor in certain insurance coverage rates

## 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=sb849%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=849)
2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb849%20org.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=849)
3. **SB849 HFA SHOTT 2-28 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB849 HFA SHOTT 2-28 _1 adopted.htm)
4. **SB849 SFA TAKUBO 3-2 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB849 SFA TAKUBO 3-2 _1 adopted.htm)
5. **SB849 SFAT TAKUBO 3-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB849 SFAT TAKUBO 3-2 adopted.htm)
6. **SB849 Shott HFA AM adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB849 Shott HFA AM adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **92–0** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Azinger — primary (person)
- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
- Beach — cosponsor (person)
- Clements — cosponsor (person)
- Cline — cosponsor (person)
- Hardesty — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Pitsenbarger — cosponsor (person)
- Romano — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Trump — cosponsor (person)
- Weld — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-24** Originating in Senate Judiciary
- **2020-02-24** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-24** Immediate consideration
- **2020-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-25** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-26** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-26** Passed Senate (Roll No. 338) `passage`
- **2020-02-26** Effective from passage (Roll No. 338)
- **2020-02-26** Ordered to House
- **2020-02-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-02-27** Immediate consideration
- **2020-02-27** Reference dispensed
- **2020-02-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-28** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-02-29** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-29** Passed House (Roll No. 433) `passage`
- **2020-02-29** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-02-29** Effective from passage (Roll No. 434)
- **2020-02-29** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-03** House Message received
- **2020-03-03** Senate amends House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 389)
- **2020-03-03** Effective from passage (Roll No. 389)
- **2020-03-03** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-05** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-05** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 618)
- **2020-03-05** Effective from passage (Roll No. 619)
- **2020-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-05** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-06** House Message received
- **2020-03-12** To Governor 3/12/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/12/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/12/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
- **2020-04-14** Chapter 189, 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/d8edf3e4-75bf-48d0-99e3-8ed1fa0214bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).