---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing the Public Service Commission to promulgate rules for maintenance, flushing, flow testing, and marking of fire hydrants owned by water utilities"
description: "Authorizing the Public Service Commission to promulgate rules for maintenance, flushing, flow testing, and marking of fire hydrants owned by water utilities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 5617"
citation: "West Virginia HB 5617 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Service Commission"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Linville"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 38
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-12"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/759a4b45-b2d6-4b59-a607-d314c749bafc"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5617&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "2d28a136ac13d9050e9abf80ed640cc3cbe6bfea0e94ab0241d81a7c19f9a5d2"
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 5617 (2024) — Authorizing the Public Service Commission to promulgate rules for maintenance, flushing, flow testing, and marking of fire hydrants owned by water utilities

## 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=hb5617%20sub.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5617)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5617%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5617)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5617%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5617)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **89–2** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Linville — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-02-12** To Technology and Infrastructure then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-02-12** To House Technology and Infrastructure `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-22** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** By substitute, do pass
- **2024-02-26** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-27** 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 with amendment pending and right to amend, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-28** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2024-02-28** Amendment withdrawn (Voice vote)
- **2024-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Passed House (Roll No. 404) `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-29** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-29** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-04** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-04** Immediate consideration
- **2024-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-03-05** On 2nd reading
- **2024-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-06** On 3rd reading
- **2024-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-06** Passed Senate (Roll No. 396) `passage`
- **2024-03-06** Communicated to House
- **2024-03-06** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-06** House received Senate message
- **2024-03-13** To Governor 3/13/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/13/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/13/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/20/204 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-20** Approved by Governor 3/20/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/20/2024 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Chapter 240, 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/759a4b45-b2d6-4b59-a607-d314c749bafc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).