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type: "Bill"
title: "Business Liability Protection Act"
description: "Business Liability Protection Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 4187"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4187 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Actions", "Suits and Liens", "Public Safety", "Real and Personal Property"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Foster"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 45
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-01-18"
last_action: "2018-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/355d9068-3f97-40c0-a25a-acfd79504d3f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4187&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "f97bd5b3336af5ccdd6f14521042da4c9c33bdf49b0f28d2d5dd75f88135ff62"
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 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](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4187%20SUB.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4187)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4187%20SUB%20ENG.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4187)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4187%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4187)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4187%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4187)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **8514** (pass) · legislature
- HFA SHOTT & BYRD 2-26 #1**2276** (fail) · legislature
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **8711** (pass) · legislature
- HFA PUSHKIN 2-26 #2**593** (fail) · legislature
- Passage — **321** (pass) · legislature
- HFA PUSHKIN 2-26 #1**1484** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/355d9068-3f97-40c0-a25a-acfd79504d3f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).