---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to in-service training credits for law-enforcement officers"
description: "Relating to in-service training credits for law-enforcement officers"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2802"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2802 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pinson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 39
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-21"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4087b97e-3aa4-40d3-a8b5-49ba9073ab0f"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2802&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "9dbf8534e80e5d540790a95fe5c4b939a7bf3d73afc14409d93b84bdf595de84"
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 2802 (2025) — Relating to in-service training credits for law-enforcement officers

## 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=hb2802%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2802)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2802%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2802)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2802%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2802)
4. **hb2802 hfat akers 3-17 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2802%20hfat%20akers%203-17%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pinson — primary (person)
- Akers — cosponsor (person)
- Burkhammer — cosponsor (person)
- Funkhouser — cosponsor (person)
- Holstein — cosponsor (person)
- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Kump — cosponsor (person)
- Maynor — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-21** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-21** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06** To House Homeland Security `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-07** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-10** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** Do pass
- **2025-03-14** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-17** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-18** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-18** Passed House (Roll No. 107) `passage`
- **2025-03-18** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-03-18** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Without recommendation, but first rereferred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-08** On second reading, rereferred to Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 480) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-11** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-21** To Governor 4/21/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - 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 159, 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/4087b97e-3aa4-40d3-a8b5-49ba9073ab0f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).