---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to awards and benefits for duty related disability in the municipal police officers and firefighters retirement system"
description: "Relating to awards and benefits for duty related disability in the municipal police officers and firefighters retirement system"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 5188"
citation: "West Virginia HB 5188 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Municipalities", "Unemployment Compensation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Chiarelli"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 40
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-25"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/be793335-3949-40e3-8f8a-1b1e7c55c0d1"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5188&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ad6ba2e4c7fd258fd2fa1cfb7ca8bcfee93cf11fc67c75a1588447718f3dcc64"
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 5188 (2024) — Relating to awards and benefits for duty related disability in the municipal police officers and firefighters retirement system

## 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=hb5188%20sub.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5188)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5188%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5188)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5188%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5188)
4. **hb5188 s fin am _1 3-5 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/hb5188%20s%20fin%20am%20_1%203-5%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **93–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Chiarelli — primary (person)
- DeVault — cosponsor (person)
- Hornbuckle — cosponsor (person)
- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
- Mallow — cosponsor (person)
- Pritt, E. — cosponsor (person)
- Sheedy — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-25** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-25** To Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-25** To House Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-07** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-07** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** By substitute, do pass
- **2024-02-26** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-27** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-28** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Passed House (Roll No. 367) `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-29** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-29** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05** Reported do pass, with amendments `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 amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-03-07** On 3rd reading
- **2024-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 414) `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. 691)
- **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 3/22/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-22** Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Chapter 74, 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/be793335-3949-40e3-8f8a-1b1e7c55c0d1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).