---
type: "Bill"
title: "Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact"
description: "Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4179"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4179 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Occupations", "Public Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maynard"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 41
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-14"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6be6cbb4-2341-4de2-80a0-84b1b6ca671b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4179&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "034aac199b7cd1133b511c0e3748fd7d3ef3d4f8810c09a9c64b08ba878a5bf3"
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 4179 (2020) — Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact

## 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=HB4179%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4179)
2. **HB4179 SFA _1 TRUMP 2-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/HB4179 SFA _1 TRUMP 2-7 adopted.htm)
3. **HB4179 SFAT _1 TRUMP 2-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/HB4179 SFAT _1 TRUMP 2-7 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4179%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4179)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Maynard — primary (person)
- Bibby — cosponsor (person)
- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-14** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-14** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-28** Do pass
- **2020-01-29** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-30** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-31** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-31** Passed House (Roll No. 69) `passage`
- **2020-01-31** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-03** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-03** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-03** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-07** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-10** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-11** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-11** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-02-12** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-12** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 136) `passage`
- **2020-02-12** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-02-13** House received Senate message
- **2020-02-13** House refused to concur; requested Senate to recede (Voice)
- **2020-02-13** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-17** House Message received
- **2020-02-17** Senate receded and passed (Roll No. 149)
- **2020-02-17** Communicated to House
- **2020-02-17** Completed legislative action
- **2020-02-18** House received Senate message
- **2020-02-28** To Governor 2/28/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-28** To Governor 2/28/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-02-28** To Governor 2/28/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-05** Approved by Governor 3/5/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-06** Approved by Governor 3/5/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-05** Approved by Governor 3/5/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 278, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6be6cbb4-2341-4de2-80a0-84b1b6ca671b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).