---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing the State Auditor to conduct regular financial examinations or audits of all volunteer fire companies"
description: "Authorizing the State Auditor to conduct regular financial examinations or audits of all volunteer fire companies"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2958"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2958 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Banking and Finance", "Public Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maynard"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 42
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-11"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8f998245-8c3c-4270-9ea3-e854426139f1"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2958&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "c5dfd4c757067d69853b46938bd2b216c8b2bc61e82471c4b871ec09409adade"
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 2958 (2019) — Authorizing the State Auditor to conduct regular financial examinations or audits of all volunteer fire companies

## 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=hb2958%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2958)
2. **HB2958 S GOV AM _1 2-28 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2958 S GOV AM _1 2-28 adopted.htm)
3. **HB2958 S GOV AM _2 2-28 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2958 S GOV AM _2 2-28  adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2958%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2958)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **93–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Maynard — primary (person)
- Angelucci — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Linville — cosponsor (person)
- Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Paynter — cosponsor (person)
- Westfall — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2019-02-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-02-11** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-11** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-14** Do pass
- **2019-02-15** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-15** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-18** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-19** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-19** Passed House (Roll No. 209) `passage`
- **2019-02-19** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-20** House Message received
- **2019-02-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-20** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-01** Reported do pass, with amendments `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-02** On 1st reading
- **2019-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-04** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-04** Committee amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-05** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-04** Senate reconsidered action (voice vote)
- **2019-03-04** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-05** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-05** Passed Senate (Roll No. 357) `passage`
- **2019-03-05** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-06** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-06** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 504)
- **2019-03-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-06** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-07** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/19/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/19/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-19** To Governor 3/19/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 129, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8f998245-8c3c-4270-9ea3-e854426139f1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).