---
type: "Bill"
title: "Mandating certification for certain members of fire departments, require certain types of training, allow specialized personnel who are not firefighters to be members of a department, and require the postings of fire department evaluations"
description: "Mandating certification for certain members of fire departments, require certain types of training, allow specialized personnel who are not firefighters to be members of a department, and require the postings of fire department evaluations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2621"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2621 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Steele"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 36
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-19"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/49038abd-b0f8-4341-8dc2-bf09a8a7ca47"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2621&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "32b6df057d4e2e27284124773c81ec65a5a21ea6796239adb30b7cf50e016a0a"
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 2621 (2021) — Mandating certification for certain members of fire departments, require certain types of training, allow specialized personnel who are not firefighters to be members of a department, and require the postings of fire department evaluations

## 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=HB2621%20SUB.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2621)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2621%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2621)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2621%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2621)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Steele — primary (person)
- Diserio — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Skaff — cosponsor (person)
- Statler — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-19** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-02-19** To Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services then Government Organization
- **2021-02-19** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-02-19** To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-25** With amendment, do pass, but first to Government Organization `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-25** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** By substitute, do pass
- **2021-03-03** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-04** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 92) `passage`
- **2021-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-08** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-08** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-08** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-19** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-22** On 1st reading
- **2021-03-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-23** On 2nd reading
- **2021-03-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-24** On 3rd reading
- **2021-03-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-24** Passed Senate (Roll No. 185) `passage`
- **2021-03-24** Communicated to House
- **2021-03-24** Completed legislative action
- **2021-03-25** House received Senate message
- **2021-03-30** To Governor 3/30/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-31** To Governor 3/30/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-30** To Governor 3/30/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-05** Approved by Governor 4/5/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-04-05** Approved by Governor 4/5/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-06** Approved by Governor 4/5/21 - House Journal
- **2021-05-20** Chapter 231, Acts, Regular Session, 2021

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/49038abd-b0f8-4341-8dc2-bf09a8a7ca47`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).