---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating a personal income tax credit for volunteer firefighters in West Virginia"
description: "Creating a personal income tax credit for volunteer firefighters in West Virginia"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4558"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4558 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Maynard"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 62
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-28"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a496833c-9e69-46cc-9118-017e5f70c068"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4558&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "2ddf7e4bc04c10d80bb9fb544577785fecbca7a7b55c1302ba79d651d6424aa7"
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 4558 (2020) — Creating a personal income tax credit for volunteer firefighters in West Virginia

## 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=HB4558%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4558)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4558%20SUB%20ENG.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4558)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4558%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4558)
4. **HB4558 HFA MAYNARD AND HOUSEHOLDER 2-21 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/HB4558 HFA MAYNARD AND HOUSEHOLDER 2-21 _1 adopted.htm)
5. **HB4558 SFA BLAIR AND PALUMBO 3-6 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/HB4558 SFA BLAIR AND PALUMBO 3-6 _1 adopted.htm)
6. **HB4558 SFAT _BLAIR 3-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/HB4558 SFAT _BLAIR 3-6 adopted.htm)
7. **House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 775)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2020/RS/votes/house/00775.pdf)
8. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4558%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4558)
9. **Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 639)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2020/RS/votes/senate/03-07-0639.pdf)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Maynard — primary (person)
- Criss — cosponsor (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Graves — cosponsor (person)
- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Householder — cosponsor (person)
- Howell — cosponsor (person)
- Linville — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Rowan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-28** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-28** To Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services then Finance
- **2020-01-28** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-28** To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-11** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2020-02-11** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-20** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-02-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-24** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-02-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-26** From Special Calendar, 3rd reading, placed on House Calendar
- **2020-02-26** From House Calendar, 3rd reading, placed on Special Calendar
- **2020-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-26** Passed House (Roll No. 350) `passage`
- **2020-02-26** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-27** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-27** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-04** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-04** Immediate consideration
- **2020-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-05** On 2nd reading
- **2020-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-05** Committee Amendment Reported
- **2020-03-06** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2020-03-06** Committee amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
- **2020-03-06** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-06** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 507) `passage`
- **2020-03-06** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-07** House refused to concur; requested Senate to recede (Voice)
- **2020-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** Senate refused to recede; requested conference (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-07** Senate appoints conference committee: Sypolt, Weld, Palumbo
- **2020-03-07** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-07** House agreed to conference
- **2020-03-07** House appointed conferees: Criss, Maynard, Barrett
- **2020-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-07** To conference
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** Conference report filed - Senate
- **2020-03-07** Conference report filed - House
- **2020-03-07** Conference report received-House
- **2020-03-07** House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 775)
- **2020-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 639)
- **2020-03-07** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **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 337, 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/a496833c-9e69-46cc-9118-017e5f70c068`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).