---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to firefighter disability claims"
description: "Relating to firefighter disability claims"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 3045"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3045 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Occupations", "Workers Compensation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Statler"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-03-10"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f49b1d62-2fd5-4389-8f23-80a1ce47fee3"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3045&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "e31267fdf002ab53b7488879177ad330d3604c57761a7472d9093984dace9594"
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 3045 (2021) — Relating to firefighter disability claims

## 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=HB3045%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=3045)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3045%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=3045)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Statler — primary (person)
- Holstein — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Paynter — cosponsor (person)
- Pethtel — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Storch — cosponsor (person)
- Westfall — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-03-10** To Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services then Judiciary
- **2021-03-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-03-10** To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2021-03-18** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-19** Do pass
- **2021-03-22** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-23** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-24** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-24** Passed House (Roll No. 267) `passage`
- **2021-03-24** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-25** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-25** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-01** On 1st reading
- **2021-04-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-04-02** On 2nd reading
- **2021-04-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-05** On 3rd reading
- **2021-04-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-05** Passed Senate (Roll No. 317) `passage`
- **2021-04-05** Communicated to House
- **2021-04-05** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-05** House received Senate message
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/10/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/10/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/10/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 - House Journal
- **2021-04-26** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-20** Chapter 279, 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/f49b1d62-2fd5-4389-8f23-80a1ce47fee3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).