---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the employment of individuals by municipal paid fire departments under civil service"
description: "Relating to the employment of individuals by municipal paid fire departments under civil service"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 4324"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4324 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howell"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 48
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-26"
last_action: "2018-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2e6d4ba7-3298-43c5-ac24-794faef4a05b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4324&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "583f8ec08b928b6e4fa5572de711c209dd279e682ffb5c18e81070c511796fb5"
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 4324 (2018) — Relating to the employment of individuals by municipal paid fire departments under civil service

## 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=hb4324%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4324)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4324%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4324)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Howell — primary (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Criss — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Martin — cosponsor (person)
- Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Paynter — cosponsor (person)
- Shott — cosponsor (person)
- Statler — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-26** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-01-26** To Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services then Judiciary
- **2018-01-26** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-01-26** To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-13** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2018-02-13** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Do pass
- **2018-02-16** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-16** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-19** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-20** Passed House (Roll No. 165) `passage`
- **2018-02-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-02-21** House Message received
- **2018-02-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-07** Without recommendation, but first rereferred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-07** Immediate consideration
- **2018-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-07** Rereferred to Judiciary on 2nd reading `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-08** Having been read 1st time 3/7/18
- **2018-03-08** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-08** Immediate consideration
- **2018-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-09** On 3rd reading with right to amend, amendment pending
- **2018-03-09** Committee Amendment Reported
- **2018-03-09** Amendment to committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2018-03-09** Committee amendment as amended adopted (Voice vote)
- **2018-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-09** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 437) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2018-03-09** Senate reconsidered title amendment (Voice vote)
- **2018-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2018-03-10** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-10** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 544)
- **2018-03-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-10** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-10** House Message received
- **2018-03-21** To Governor 3/21/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-21** To Governor 3/21/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/21/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - House Journal
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-04-16** Chapter 160, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2e6d4ba7-3298-43c5-ac24-794faef4a05b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).