---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System and clarifying payment upon death of member with less than 10 years of contributory service"
description: "Relating to the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System and clarifying payment upon death of member with less than 10 years of contributory service"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 5273"
citation: "West Virginia HB 5273 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Retirement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gearheart"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-29"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e46af2e8-884b-41c8-8c54-28f63ce2e8d7"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5273&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "cff4d939c05f4939bdb5d2260ba9dd854c44ebbeb927ae5caff8cc64e905f7d4"
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 5273 (2024) — Relating to the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System and clarifying payment upon death of member with less than 10 years of contributory service

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5273%20sub.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5273)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5273%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5273)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5273%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5273)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gearheart — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Kump — cosponsor (person)
- Marple — cosponsor (person)
- Pritt, C. — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-29** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-29** To Pensions and Retirement then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-29** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-29** To House Pensions and Retirement `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-31** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2024-01-31** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-08** By substitute, do pass
- **2024-02-09** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-12** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-13** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-13** Passed House (Roll No. 168) `passage`
- **2024-02-13** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-14** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-14** Committee reference dispensed
- **2024-02-15** On 1st reading
- **2024-02-15** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-16** On 2nd reading
- **2024-02-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-19** On 3rd reading
- **2024-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-19** Passed Senate (Roll No. 172) `passage`
- **2024-02-19** Communicated to House
- **2024-02-19** Completed legislative action
- **2024-02-20** House received Senate message
- **2024-02-29** To Governor 2/29/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-01** To Governor 2/29/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-01** To Governor 2/29/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-06** Approved by Governor 3/6/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/6/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/6/2024 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Chapter 224, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e46af2e8-884b-41c8-8c54-28f63ce2e8d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).