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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to Emergency Medical Services Retirement System Act"
+description: "Relating to Emergency Medical Services Retirement System Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 4688"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4688 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Retirement"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Barrett"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 40
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2022-02-15"
+last_action: "2022-04-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/84c17170-d937-4634-b8fb-d59b0271bb5e"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4688&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "3425644347013e66217b594244fb71661ad2552ed6fad20c7887e5fea18f0aad"
+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 4688 (2022) — Relating to Emergency Medical Services Retirement System Act
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4688%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4688)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4688%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4688)
+3. **HB4688 HFAT SUMMERS 3-12 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/floor_amends/HB4688 HFAT SUMMERS 3-12 adopted.htm)
+4. **HB4688 SFA NELSON _1 3-12 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/floor_amends/HB4688 SFA NELSON _1 3-12 adopted.htm)
+5. **HB4688 SFAT NELSON _AMENDMENT 1 3-12 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/floor_amends/HB4688 SFAT NELSON _AMENDMENT 1 3-12 adopted.htm)
+6. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4688%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4688)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Barrett — primary (person)
+- Criss — cosponsor (person)
+- Graves — cosponsor (person)
+- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
+- Hott — cosponsor (person)
+- Householder — cosponsor (person)
+- Storch — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-02-15** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2022-02-15** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-15** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2022-02-15** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-24** By substitute, do pass
+- **2022-02-25** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-02-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2022-02-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2022-03-01** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2022-03-01** Passed House (Roll No. 304) `passage`
+- **2022-03-01** Communicated to Senate
+- **2022-03-02** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2022-03-02** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-02** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-10** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2022-03-10** Immediate consideration
+- **2022-03-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2022-03-11** On 2nd reading
+- **2022-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2022-03-12** On 3rd reading with right to amend
+- **2022-03-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2022-03-12** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2022-03-12** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 528) `passage`
+- **2022-03-12** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2022-03-12** House received Senate message
+- **2022-03-12** House concurred in Senate amend with title amend, passed (Roll No. 671)
+- **2022-03-12** Communicated to Senate
+- **2022-03-12** House Message received
+- **2022-03-12** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 562)
+- **2022-03-12** Communicated to House
+- **2022-03-12** Completed legislative action
+- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/25/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/25/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-25** To Governor 3/25/22 `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/2022 - Senate Journal
+- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 - House Journal
+- **2022-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 `executive-signature`
+- **2022-04-19** Chapter 72, Acts, Regular Session, 2022
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/84c17170-d937-4634-b8fb-d59b0271bb5e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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