---
type: "Bill"
title: "To require the State Fire Commission to propose minimum standards for persons to be certified as probationary status volunteer firefighters"
description: "To require the State Fire Commission to propose minimum standards for persons to be certified as probationary status volunteer firefighters"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4608"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4608 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Statler"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-02-10"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/479feb26-c4b9-4af8-a531-2ee923fd1823"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4608&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "45ed5c0938640cb099fd37c96ec195f6629bbf7006a20937d99f49daaefe5d70"
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 4608 (2022) — To require the State Fire Commission to propose minimum standards for persons to be certified as probationary status volunteer firefighters

## 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=HB4608%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4608)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4608%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4608)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4608%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4608)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Statler — primary (person)
- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
- Honaker — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Maynor — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Paynter — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Riley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-02-10** To Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services then Government Organization
- **2022-02-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-02-10** To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** Do pass, but first to Government Organization
- **2022-02-17** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-24** By substitute, do pass
- **2022-02-25** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-01** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-03-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-01** Passed House (Roll No. 300) `passage`
- **2022-03-01** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-02** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-03-02** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-02** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-08** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-09** On 1st reading
- **2022-03-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-10** On 2nd reading
- **2022-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-11** On 3rd reading
- **2022-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 462) `passage`
- **2022-03-11** Communicated to House
- **2022-03-11** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/24/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/24/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-24** To Governor 3/24/22 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/2022 - Senate Journal
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 249, Acts, Regular Session, 2022

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/479feb26-c4b9-4af8-a531-2ee923fd1823`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).