---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allowing military veterans who meet certain qualifications to qualify for examination for license as an emergency medical technician"
description: "Allowing military veterans who meet certain qualifications to qualify for examination for license as an emergency medical technician"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2209"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2209 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-10"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/250b3224-f47c-4956-a080-642868d32696"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2209&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "1ae75369ff9146e7b9b30f105e769c7414e0651c277e6e83056bd3ae2514cd8d"
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 2209 (2019) — Allowing military veterans who meet certain qualifications to qualify for examination for license as an emergency medical technician

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2209%20eng.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2209)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2209%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2209)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2209%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2209)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Howell — primary (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Shott — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-10** To Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security then Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-10** To House Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-23** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2019-01-24** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-25** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-01-28** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-01-28** Passed House (Roll No. 31) `passage`
- **2019-01-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-01-29** House Message received
- **2019-01-29** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-29** To Military
- **2019-01-29** To Military
- **2019-03-05** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-06** On 1st reading
- **2019-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-08** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 429) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/21/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-21** To Governor 3/21/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/21/19 - Senate Journal `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 192, 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/250b3224-f47c-4956-a080-642868d32696`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).