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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to establishing a program for emergency medical services personnel to become certified paramedics"
+description: "Relating to establishing a program for emergency medical services personnel to become certified paramedics"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 5347"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 5347 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education (Higher)", "Professions and Occupations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Jennings"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 45
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2024-01-30"
+last_action: "2024-04-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19cf0e12-27d7-4be0-8e7a-7336d0c145b6"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5347&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "220c54de8c041532bd7a483df03d5b195b823479569d6e98858b02c9c92cb923"
+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 5347 (2024) — Relating to establishing a program for emergency medical services personnel to become certified paramedics
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5347%20sub.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5347)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5347%20sub%20eng.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5347)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5347%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5347)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5347%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5347)
+5. **hb5347 hfa summers 2-19 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/hb5347%20hfa%20summers%202-19%20_1%20adopted.htm)
+6. **hb5347 s h_hr am _ 2-27 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/hb5347%20s%20h_hr%20am%20_%202-27%20adopted.htm)
+7. **hb5347 s h_hr amt _ 2-27 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/hb5347%20s%20h_hr%20amt%20_%202-27%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- EFFECT July 01, 2024 — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- EFFECT July 01, 2024 — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Jennings — primary (person)
+- Mallow — cosponsor (person)
+- Shamblin — cosponsor (person)
+- Statler — cosponsor (person)
+- Tully — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-30** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2024-01-30** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-30** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2024-01-30** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-16** By substitute, do pass
+- **2024-02-19** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-02-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-20** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-02-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-20** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2024-02-20** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2024-02-21** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-02-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-21** Passed House (Roll No. 254) `passage`
+- **2024-02-21** Effective July 1, 2024 (Roll No. 255)
+- **2024-02-21** Communicated to Senate
+- **2024-02-22** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2024-02-22** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-22** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-27** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-27** Immediate consideration
+- **2024-02-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-28** On 2nd reading
+- **2024-02-28** Laid over on 2nd reading 2/28/2024
+- **2024-02-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-29** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2024-03-01** On 3rd reading
+- **2024-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-01** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 332) `passage`
+- **2024-03-01** Effective July 1, 2024 (Roll No. 332)
+- **2024-03-01** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2024-03-04** House received Senate message
+- **2024-03-04** Immediate consideration
+- **2024-03-04** House concurred in Senate amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 442)
+- **2024-03-04** Effective July 1, 2024 (Roll No. 443)
+- **2024-03-04** Communicated to Senate
+- **2024-03-04** Completed legislative action
+- **2024-03-05** House Message received
+- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-21** To Governor 3/21/2024 `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 - 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 225, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19cf0e12-27d7-4be0-8e7a-7336d0c145b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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