republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2018/hb-4187.md

type, title, description, jurisdiction, legislature, session, identifier, citation, classification, subjects, status, primary_sponsors, version_count, action_count, vote_count, first_action, last_action, source, source_identifier, source_url, source_hash, vintage, source_snapshot, retrieved_at, confidence, tags

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Bill	Business Liability Protection Act	Business Liability Protection Act	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2018	HB 4187	West Virginia HB 4187 (2018)	bill	Actions Suits and Liens Public Safety Real and Personal Property	enacted	Foster	4	45	6	2018-01-18	2018-04-16	openstates	ocd-bill/355d9068-3f97-40c0-a25a-acfd79504d3f	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4187&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	f97bd5b3336af5ccdd6f14521042da4c9c33bdf49b0f28d2d5dd75f88135ff62	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4187 (2018) — Business Liability Protection Act

Version chain

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

1. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 85–14 (pass) · legislature
• HFA SHOTT & BYRD 2-26 #1 — 22–76 (fail) · legislature
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 87–11 (pass) · legislature
• HFA PUSHKIN 2-26 #2 — 5–93 (fail) · legislature
• Passage — 32–1 (pass) · legislature
• HFA PUSHKIN 2-26 #1 — 14–84 (fail) · legislature

Sponsors

• Foster — primary (person)
• Barrett — cosponsor (person)
• Blair — cosponsor (person)
• Butler — cosponsor (person)
• Graves — cosponsor (person)
• Hollen — cosponsor (person)
• Isner — cosponsor (person)
• Miller, R. — cosponsor (person)
• Summers — cosponsor (person)
• Zatezalo — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-18 Filed for introduction filing
• 2018-01-18 To Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development then Judiciary
• 2018-01-18 Introduced in House introduction
• 2018-01-18 To House Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development referral-committee
• 2018-02-09 With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary committee-passage
• 2018-02-09 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-22 By substitute, do pass
• 2018-02-23 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-23 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-02-26 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-26 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-02-26 Amendment rejected (Roll No. 223) amendment-failure
• 2018-02-26 Amendment rejected (Roll No. 224) amendment-failure
• 2018-02-26 Amendment rejected (Roll No. 225) amendment-failure
• 2018-02-26 Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-02-27 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2018-02-27 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-02-27 Passed House (Roll No. 232) passage
• 2018-02-27 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-02-28 House Message received
• 2018-02-28 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2018-02-28 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-28 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-03-07 Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment committee-passage
• 2018-03-07 Immediate consideration
• 2018-03-07 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-03-08 On 2nd reading
• 2018-03-08 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-03-08 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-03-09 On 3rd reading
• 2018-03-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-03-09 Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 431) passage
• 2018-03-09 Senate requests House to concur
• 2018-03-10 House received Senate message
• 2018-03-10 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 503)
• 2018-03-10 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-10 Completed legislative action
• 2018-03-10 House Message received
• 2018-03-21 To Governor 3/21/18 executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/21/18 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/21/18 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/21/18 - Senate Journal
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/21/18 - House Journal
• 2018-03-21 Approved by Governor 3/21/18 executive-signature
• 2018-04-16 Chapter 4, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/355d9068-3f97-40c0-a25a-acfd79504d3f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).