---
type: "Bill"
title: "Excepting persons previously commissioned as a notary public from requirement to have a high school diploma or its equivalent in order to be recommissioned as a notary public"
description: "Excepting persons previously commissioned as a notary public from requirement to have a high school diploma or its equivalent in order to be recommissioned as a notary public"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 5332"
citation: "West Virginia HB 5332 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance and Administration"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Toney"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 31
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-01-29"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3474e79c-268e-4a2b-8da6-959d306f366f"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5332&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "2941388b82f01a3d11b09fcdfe46b540b5340b9ce129ad2a08476a1844fe20c9"
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 5332 (2024) — Excepting persons previously commissioned as a notary public from requirement to have a high school diploma or its equivalent in order to be recommissioned as a notary public

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5332%20eng.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5332)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5332%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5332)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5332%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5332)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **90–4** (pass) · lower
- SUSPEND CONSTITUTIONAL RULE — **92–1** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **92–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Toney — primary (person)
- Young — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-29** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-29** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-29** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-29** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-01** Do pass
- **2024-02-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-01** Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 73)
- **2024-02-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-01** Passed House (Roll No. 74) `passage`
- **2024-02-01** Effective from passage (Roll No. 75)
- **2024-02-01** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-02** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-02** Committee reference dispensed
- **2024-02-02** Immediate consideration
- **2024-02-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-02** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 87)
- **2024-02-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-02** Passed Senate (Roll No. 88) `passage`
- **2024-02-02** Effective from passage (Roll No. 88)
- **2024-02-02** Communicated to House
- **2024-02-02** Completed legislative action
- **2024-02-02** House received Senate message
- **2024-02-02** To Governor 2/2/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-05** To Governor 2/2/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-06** To Governor 2/2/202 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-08** Approved by Governor 2/7/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-02-08** Approved by Governor 2/7/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-02-08** Approved by Governor 2/8/2024 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Chapter 241, 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/3474e79c-268e-4a2b-8da6-959d306f366f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).