---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clarifying the probationary period for paid municipal firefighters."
description: "Clarifying the probationary period for paid municipal firefighters."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2484"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2484 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Crouse"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-17"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/71273af2-5321-41c8-9a83-57bbf4374f40"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2484&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "1e9ef1eb095b711f00eb21cf3b867408e5d20cfbad40045435cd83a48ac10fe8"
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 2484 (2025) — Clarifying the probationary period for paid municipal firefighters.

## 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=hb2484%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2484)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2484%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2484)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2484%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2484)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Crouse — primary (person)
- Akers — cosponsor (person)
- Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
- Drennan — cosponsor (person)
- Heckert — cosponsor (person)
- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Mallow — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-17** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-17** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24** To House Government Adminstration `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Do pass
- **2025-03-25** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-26** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-27** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-27** Passed House (Roll No. 212) `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-29** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-29** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-29** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-08** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-09** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 394) `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-09** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-09** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-14** To Governor 4/14/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-14** To Governor 4/12/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/14/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-25** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-31** Chapter 68, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/71273af2-5321-41c8-9a83-57bbf4374f40`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).