---
type: "Bill"
title: "Permitting military personnel in areas where on-the-job emergency medicine is part of the training to be granted automatic EMS or EMT certification"
description: "Permitting military personnel in areas where on-the-job emergency medicine is part of the training to be granted automatic EMS or EMT certification"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4655"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4655 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Howell"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 38
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-02-03"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a0d7caaa-7965-4a00-acc4-14f892beb9f0"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4655&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "9f71ef2e12aecbc6e4800f6d0db6b4ffc2adfd49f6d948d2538b6ab141fb9bb3"
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 4655 (2020) — Permitting military personnel in areas where on-the-job emergency medicine is part of the training to be granted automatic EMS or EMT certification

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4655%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4655)
2. **HB4655 S MIL AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4655 S MIL AM _1 adopted.htm)
3. **HB4655 S MIL AMT _1 2-28adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4655 S MIL AMT _1 2-28adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4655%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4655)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Howell — primary (person)
- Angelucci — cosponsor (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Fast — cosponsor (person)
- Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Martin, C. — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Staggers — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-03** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-02-03** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-03** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-02-03** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-10** Do pass
- **2020-02-11** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-12** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-13** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-13** Passed House (Roll No. 177) `passage`
- **2020-02-13** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-14** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-14** To Military
- **2020-02-14** To Military
- **2020-03-02** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-02** Immediate consideration
- **2020-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-03** On 2nd reading
- **2020-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-03** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-04** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-04** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 439) `passage`
- **2020-03-04** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-05** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-05** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 554)
- **2020-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-05** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-06** House Message received
- **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 286, 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/a0d7caaa-7965-4a00-acc4-14f892beb9f0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).