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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the employment of individuals by municipal paid fire departments under civil service"
+description: "Relating to the employment of individuals by municipal paid fire departments under civil service"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 4324"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4324 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public Safety"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Howell"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 48
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-01-26"
+last_action: "2018-04-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e6d4ba7-3298-43c5-ac24-794faef4a05b"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4324&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "583f8ec08b928b6e4fa5572de711c209dd279e682ffb5c18e81070c511796fb5"
+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 4324 (2018) — Relating to the employment of individuals by municipal paid fire departments under civil service
+
+## 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=hb4324%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4324)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4324%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4324)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Howell — primary (person)
+- Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Criss — cosponsor (person)
+- Foster — cosponsor (person)
+- Hill — cosponsor (person)
+- Martin — cosponsor (person)
+- Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Pack — cosponsor (person)
+- Paynter — cosponsor (person)
+- Shott — cosponsor (person)
+- Statler — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-26** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2018-01-26** To Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services then Judiciary
+- **2018-01-26** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2018-01-26** To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-13** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
+- **2018-02-13** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-15** Do pass
+- **2018-02-16** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-02-16** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-19** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-20** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-02-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-20** Passed House (Roll No. 165) `passage`
+- **2018-02-20** Communicated to Senate
+- **2018-02-21** House Message received
+- **2018-02-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2018-02-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-07** Without recommendation, but first rereferred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-07** Immediate consideration
+- **2018-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2018-03-07** Rereferred to Judiciary on 2nd reading `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-08** Having been read 1st time 3/7/18
+- **2018-03-08** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2018-03-08** Immediate consideration
+- **2018-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-09** On 3rd reading with right to amend, amendment pending
+- **2018-03-09** Committee Amendment Reported
+- **2018-03-09** Amendment to committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2018-03-09** Committee amendment as amended adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2018-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-09** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 437) `passage`
+- **2018-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2018-03-09** Senate reconsidered title amendment (Voice vote)
+- **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. 544)
+- **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`
+- **2018-03-21** To Governor 3/21/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/21/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 `executive-signature`
+- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - House Journal
+- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - Senate Journal
+- **2018-04-16** Chapter 160, 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/2e6d4ba7-3298-43c5-ac24-794faef4a05b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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