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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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103 lines
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---
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Establish narrow, clearly bounded guaranteed-issue rights for Medicare Supplement policies in West Virginia."
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description: "Establish narrow, clearly bounded guaranteed-issue rights for Medicare Supplement policies in West Virginia."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
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legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
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session: "2026"
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identifier: "HB 4869"
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citation: "West Virginia HB 4869 (2026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Human Services"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Green"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 34
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vote_count: 2
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first_action: "2026-01-28"
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last_action: "2026-06-29"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7eea48ea-cf3b-4885-9a94-69ac9183803f"
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source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4869&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
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source_hash: "f37a82553b0d6187bbfb6d39a9aed51e447e54eb4bb26305ad35258e5f052715"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
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---
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# West Virginia HB 4869 (2026) — Establish narrow, clearly bounded guaranteed-issue rights for Medicare Supplement policies in West Virginia.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4869%20sub1.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4869)
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2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4869%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4869)
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3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4869%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4869)
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4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4869%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4869)
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## Votes
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- PASSAGE — **90–1** (pass) · lower
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- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Green — primary (person)
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- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
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- Hall — cosponsor (person)
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- Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
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- Hite — cosponsor (person)
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- Hott — cosponsor (person)
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- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
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- Kyle — cosponsor (person)
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- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
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- Statler — cosponsor (person)
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- Worrell — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2026-01-28** Filed for introduction `filing`
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- **2026-01-28** To Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2026-01-28** Introduced in House `introduction`
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- **2026-01-28** To House Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2026-02-09** To House Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
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- **2026-02-24** To House Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2026-02-26** By substitute, do pass
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- **2026-02-27** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
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- **2026-02-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
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- **2026-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
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- **2026-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2026-03-03** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
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- **2026-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2026-03-03** Passed House (Roll No. 261) `passage`
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- **2026-03-03** Communicated to Senate
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- **2026-03-04** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
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- **2026-03-04** To Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
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- **2026-03-04** To Banking and Insurance `referral-committee`
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- **2026-03-11** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
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- **2026-03-11** Immediate consideration
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- **2026-03-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
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- **2026-03-12** On 2nd reading
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- **2026-03-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2026-03-13** On 3rd reading
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- **2026-03-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2026-03-13** Passed Senate (Roll No. 550) `passage`
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- **2026-03-13** Communicated to House
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- **2026-03-13** Completed legislative action
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- **2026-03-25** To Governor 3/25/2026 `executive-receipt`
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- **2026-03-14** To Governor 3/25/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
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- **2026-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/27/2026 `executive-signature`
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- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 3/27/2026 - House Journal `executive-signature`
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- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 3/27/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
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- **2026-06-29** Chapter 185, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7eea48ea-cf3b-4885-9a94-69ac9183803f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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