---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing law-enforcement officers to assist the State Fire Marshal"
description: "Authorizing law-enforcement officers to assist the State Fire Marshal"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2872"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2872 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelly, D."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 45
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-06"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ff61b3de-abd2-4908-9826-205b4b19f899"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2872&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "da6bcba0e306bdb217d5e4650cb61f32bd452da7e3d9af87b6b85b448d0520c5"
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 2872 (2019) — Authorizing law-enforcement officers to assist the State Fire Marshal

## 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=hb2872%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2872)
2. **HB2872 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2872 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2872%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2872)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kelly, D. — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Caputo — cosponsor (person)
- Harshbarger — cosponsor (person)
- Hollen — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-06** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-02-06** To Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services then Judiciary
- **2019-02-06** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-06** To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2019-02-12** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** Do pass
- **2019-02-19** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-20** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-20** Placed on House Calender
- **2019-02-21** On 2nd reading, House Calendar
- **2019-02-21** Placed on Special Calender
- **2019-02-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-22** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-22** Passed House (Roll No. 268) `passage`
- **2019-02-22** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-23** House Message received
- **2019-02-23** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-23** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-23** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-01** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `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 amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-05** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-05** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 356) `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. 503)
- **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 232, 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/ff61b3de-abd2-4908-9826-205b4b19f899`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).