---
type: "Bill"
title: "To transfer the State Office of the National Flood Insurance Program from the Offices of the Insurance Commissioner to the Division of Emergency Management"
description: "To transfer the State Office of the National Flood Insurance Program from the Offices of the Insurance Commissioner to the Division of Emergency Management"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4295"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4295 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Westfall"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 47
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-20"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f6f4c0d-25ab-491c-b728-f972475e3576"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4295&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "77eac60d34671dc1c506b645564bc501de8ce85eeb9753fe047039324b65112e"
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 4295 (2022) — To transfer the State Office of the National Flood Insurance Program from the Offices of the Insurance Commissioner to the Division of Emergency Management

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4295%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4295)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4295%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4295)
3. **HB4295 S GOV AM _1 2-28 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4295 S GOV AM _1 2-28 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4295%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4295)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Westfall — primary (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-20** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-01-20** To Banking and Insurance then Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security then Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-01-20** To House Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-27** With amendment, do pass, but first to Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-27** To House Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-02** Do pass, but first to Government Organization
- **2022-02-02** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-08** By substitute, do pass
- **2022-02-09** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-10** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-11** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-11** Passed House (Roll No. 121) `passage`
- **2022-02-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-14** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-14** To Banking and Insurance then Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-14** To Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** Reported do pass with amends and title amend, but first to Government Organization `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-22** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-04** On 1st reading
- **2022-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2022-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-07** Banking & Insurance Committee amendment withdrawn (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-07** Government Organization Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-07** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 355)
- **2022-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 356) `passage`
- **2022-03-07** Banking & Insurance title amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
- **2022-03-07** Government Organization Committee title amendment adopted
- **2022-03-07** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-08** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 404)
- **2022-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-09** House Message received
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-17** To Governor 3/17/22 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - Senate Journal
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 160, Acts, Regular Session, 2022

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1f6f4c0d-25ab-491c-b728-f972475e3576`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).