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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to making suffocation and asphyxiation crimes"
description: "Relating to making suffocation and asphyxiation crimes"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4393"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4393 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rohrbach"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 38
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-16"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/87a6e624-4d2a-44b5-8550-15921148bc71"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4393&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "c3eabed0450d182655bb25822811dd711dc14e62e5a0ec9c4cf9ba085429c073"
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 4393 (2020) — Relating to making suffocation and asphyxiation crimes
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4393%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4393)
2. **HB4393 S JUD AMT _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4393 S JUD AMT _1 adopted.htm)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4393%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4393)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **930** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **330** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **990** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Rohrbach — primary (person)
- Linville — cosponsor (person)
- Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2020-01-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-16** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-16** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-16** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-21** Do pass
- **2020-01-22** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-23** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-24** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-24** Passed House (Roll No. 39) `passage`
- **2020-01-24** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-01-27** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-27** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-27** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-31** Reported do pass, with title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-03** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-04** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-05** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-05** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 73) `passage`
- **2020-02-05** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-02-06** House received Senate message
- **2020-02-06** House concurred in Senate title amendment
- **2020-02-06** Passed House (Roll No. 107) `passage`
- **2020-02-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-06** Completed legislative action
- **2020-02-07** House Message received
- **2020-02-10** To Governor 2/10/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-10** To Governor 2/10/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-10** To Governor 2/10/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-14** Approved by Governor 2/14/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-02-17** Approved by Governor 2/14/20 - House Journal
- **2020-02-14** Approved by Governor 2/14/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 91, Acts, Regular Session, 2020
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/87a6e624-4d2a-44b5-8550-15921148bc71`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).