---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety promulgate legislative rules relating to the Fire Commission"
description: "Authorizing Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety promulgate legislative rules relating to the Fire Commission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4275"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4275 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Rule Making Authority"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Foster"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 63
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2020-01-14"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8bc446e-13c2-472a-aadc-e032d6c29016"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4275&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "685e1b11c1821c410e4364d6a4e6fd93dd614b2a8ce1d8b71d79156bd167f526"
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 4275 (2020) — Authorizing Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety promulgate legislative rules relating to the Fire Commission

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4275%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4275)
2. **Committee amendment adopted (Roll No. 103)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2020/RS/votes/senate/02-10-0103.pdf)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4275%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4275)
4. **HB4275 S JUD AM _1 2-5 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4275 S JUD AM _1 2-5 adopted.htm)
5. **HB4275 S JUD AMT _1 2-5 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4275 S JUD AMT _1 2-5 adopted.htm)
6. **House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 620)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2020/RS/votes/house/00620.pdf)
7. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4275%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4275)
8. **Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 595)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2020/RS/votes/senate/03-07-0595.pdf)

## Votes

- HFA FLEISCHAUER ET AL 1-21 — **40–58** (fail) · lower
- PASSAGE — **66–29** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **86–9** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **31–2** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **61–37** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **68–30** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Foster — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-14** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-14** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-17** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-01-20** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-21** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 1/22/20
- **2020-01-22** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-22** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 29) `amendment-failure`
- **2020-01-23** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-23** Passed House (Roll No. 32) `passage`
- **2020-01-23** Effective from passage (Roll No. 33)
- **2020-01-23** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-01-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-24** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-24** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-06** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-07** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-10** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-10** Committee amendment adopted (Roll No. 103)
- **2020-02-11** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-11** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 117) `passage`
- **2020-02-11** Effective from passage (Roll No. 117)
- **2020-02-11** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-02-18** House received Senate message
- **2020-02-18** House refused to concur; requested Senate to recede (Voice)
- **2020-02-18** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-20** House Message received
- **2020-02-20** Senate refused to recede; requested conference (Voice vote)
- **2020-02-20** Senate appoints conference committee: Weld, Takubo, Jeffries
- **2020-02-20** Communicated to House
- **2020-02-21** House received Senate message
- **2020-02-21** House agreed to conference
- **2020-02-21** House appointed conferees: Foster, Steele, Brown, N.
- **2020-02-21** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-21** To conference
- **2020-02-24** House Message received
- **2020-02-27** Resolution adopted to extend conference
- **2020-02-29** Conference report filed - Senate
- **2020-02-29** Conference report filed - House
- **2020-03-05** Conference report received-House
- **2020-03-05** House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 620)
- **2020-03-05** Effective from passage (Roll No. 621)
- **2020-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 595)
- **2020-03-07** Effective from passage (Roll No. 595)
- **2020-03-07** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-19** To Governor 3/19/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-24** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 213, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b8bc446e-13c2-472a-aadc-e032d6c29016`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).