republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2021/hb-2495.md

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Bill	Relating to the filing of asbestos and silica claims	Relating to the filing of asbestos and silica claims	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2021	HB 2495	West Virginia HB 2495 (2021)	bill	Actions Suits and Liens	enacted	Westfall	3	34	1	2021-02-15	2021-05-20	openstates	ocd-bill/97026ff4-b030-4f7f-a843-a9001d2bdaa9	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2495&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	54d0bedc977743ed68295072d06378fc341369e2c534c4974f3bbd496bb5af81	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 2495 (2021) — Relating to the filing of asbestos and silica claims

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• Passage — 0–0 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Westfall — primary (person)
• Keaton — cosponsor (person)
• Kessinger — cosponsor (person)
• Pack, L. — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-15 Filed for introduction filing
• 2021-02-15 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2021-02-15 Introduced in House introduction
• 2021-02-15 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2021-03-15 By substitute, do pass
• 2021-03-16 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2021-03-16 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2021-03-17 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2021-03-17 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2021-03-18 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2021-03-18 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-03-18 Passed House (Roll No. 189) passage
• 2021-03-18 Communicated to Senate
• 2021-03-19 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2021-03-19 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2021-03-19 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2021-03-27 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2021-03-29 On 1st reading
• 2021-03-29 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2021-03-30 On 2nd reading
• 2021-03-30 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2021-03-31 On 3rd reading
• 2021-03-31 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-03-31 Passed Senate (Roll No. 286) passage
• 2021-03-31 Communicated to House
• 2021-03-31 Completed legislative action
• 2021-04-01 House received Senate message
• 2021-04-07 To Governor 4/7/21 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2021-04-07 To Governor 4/7/21 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2021-04-07 To Governor 4/7/21 executive-receipt
• 2021-04-10 Approved by Governor 4/15/21 - Senate Journal
• 2021-04-10 Approved by Governor 4/15/21 - House Journal
• 2021-04-15 Approved by Governor 4/15/21 executive-signature
• 2021-05-20 Chapter 4, Acts, Regular Session, 2021

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/97026ff4-b030-4f7f-a843-a9001d2bdaa9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).