---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to employment of service personnel and removing the requirement for a high school diploma or general education development certificate."
description: "Relating to employment of service personnel and removing the requirement for a high school diploma or general education development certificate."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 4829"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4829 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Toney"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 38
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-17"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8481e99e-7656-4d14-b3d3-6047b82513ef"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4829&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "f9917a76287e70d27cacee0428e2ee49800bb824da0d3a4b0364ca4d0fd36410"
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 4829 (2024) — Relating to employment of service personnel and removing the requirement for a high school diploma or general education development certificate.

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4829%20sub.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4829)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4829%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4829)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4829%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4829)
4. **hb4829 s ed am _1 3-4 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/hb4829%20s%20ed%20am%20_1%203-4%20adopted.htm)
5. **hb4829 s ed amt _1 3-4 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/hb4829%20s%20ed%20amt%20_1%203-4%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **88–11** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **89–5** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Toney — primary (person)
- Adkins — cosponsor (person)
- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Clark, W. — cosponsor (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Ferrell — cosponsor (person)
- Holstein — cosponsor (person)
- Statler — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-17** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-17** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** By substitute, do pass
- **2024-02-23** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-26** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-27** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-27** Passed House (Roll No. 314) `passage`
- **2024-02-27** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-28** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-28** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-05** Immediate consideration
- **2024-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-03-06** On 2nd reading
- **2024-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-06** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-03-07** On 3rd reading
- **2024-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-07** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 408) `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Senate requests House to concur
- **2024-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2024-03-08** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 690)
- **2024-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-09** House Message received
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-21** To Governor 3/21/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Chapter 244, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8481e99e-7656-4d14-b3d3-6047b82513ef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).