---
type: "Bill"
title: "Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act"
description: "Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 4809"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4809 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hornby"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 39
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-16"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e8d03e24-0086-4c09-9e5e-ae3e2e71528e"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4809&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "bc113d6ff5b151b1000c106a79872199dd031df2c4f72c57f21a542cae66583d"
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 4809 (2024) — Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act

## 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=hb4809%20sub.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4809)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4809%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4809)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4809%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4809)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **29–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hornby — primary (person)
- Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
- Heckert — cosponsor (person)
- Pinson — cosponsor (person)
- Willis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-16** To Banking and Insurance then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-16** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-16** To House Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2024-02-08** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-13** By substitute, do pass
- **2024-02-14** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-15** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-16** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-16** Placed on House Calendar
- **2024-02-16** On 3rd reading, House Calendar
- **2024-02-19** From House Calendar, 3rd reading, placed on Special Calendar
- **2024-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-19** Passed House (Roll No. 215) `passage`
- **2024-02-19** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-20** Committee reference dispensed
- **2024-02-21** On 1st reading
- **2024-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-22** On 2nd reading
- **2024-02-22** Laid over on 2nd reading 2/22/2024
- **2024-02-23** Laid over on 2nd reading 2/23/2024
- **2024-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-26** On 3rd reading
- **2024-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-26** Passed Senate (Roll No. 275) `passage`
- **2024-02-26** Communicated to House
- **2024-02-26** Completed legislative action
- **2024-02-27** House received Senate message
- **2024-03-06** To Governor 3/6/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-07** To Governor 3/6/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-07** To Governor 3/6/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Chapter 169, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e8d03e24-0086-4c09-9e5e-ae3e2e71528e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).