republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/hb-4809.md

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Bill	Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act	Health Care Sharing Ministries Freedom to Share Act	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	HB 4809	West Virginia HB 4809 (2024)	bill		enacted	Hornby	3	39	2	2024-01-16	2024-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/e8d03e24-0086-4c09-9e5e-ae3e2e71528e	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4809&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	bc113d6ff5b151b1000c106a79872199dd031df2c4f72c57f21a542cae66583d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. Enrolled Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/e8d03e24-0086-4c09-9e5e-ae3e2e71528e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).