---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing Medals of Valor and Medals for Bravery for emergency medical services, firefighters, and law-enforcement officers"
description: "Establishing Medals of Valor and Medals for Bravery for emergency medical services, firefighters, and law-enforcement officers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4444"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4444 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Linville"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 42
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-20"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/087e5d9c-6802-4735-911e-2678ee81cfe5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4444&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "cfd8f6c35dede81cadc773bc406c3cdb9fa9592cb6434c8b673a92df4ae90bd1"
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 4444 (2020) — Establishing Medals of Valor and Medals for Bravery for emergency medical services, firefighters, and law-enforcement officers

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4444%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4444)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4444%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4444)
3. **HB4444 S GOV AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4444 S GOV AM _1 adopted.htm)
4. **HB4444 S GOV AMT _1 2-25 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4444 S GOV AMT _1 2-25 adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4444%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4444)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Linville — primary (person)
- Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Little — cosponsor (person)
- Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
- Mandt — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-20** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-21** To Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services then Government Organization
- **2020-01-21** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-21** To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-30** Do pass, but first to Government Organization
- **2020-01-30** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-04** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-02-05** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-06** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-07** Passed House (Roll No. 116) `passage`
- **2020-02-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-10** To Government Organization then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-10** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-03** Reported do pass with amend and title amend but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-03** Immediate consideration
- **2020-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-03** On 2nd reading to Judiciary
- **2020-03-05** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-06** On 2nd reading
- **2020-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-06** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-07** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-07** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 551) `passage`
- **2020-03-07** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-07** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 748)
- **2020-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-19** To Governor 3/19/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 299, 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/087e5d9c-6802-4735-911e-2678ee81cfe5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).