---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing certain 911 personnel to be members of Emergency Medical Services Retirement System under certain circumstances"
description: "Authorizing certain 911 personnel to be members of Emergency Medical Services Retirement System under certain circumstances"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 439"
citation: "West Virginia SB 439 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Retirement", "State Personnel"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nelson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 46
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-11"
last_action: "2024-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/add97be3-25ce-4d7d-acac-629eb8debb1a"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=439&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "2b0a23d9e7960b55ebea45bb5dc72a7e8edcd852ce06051e68cb7d09e1a9c839"
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 SB 439 (2024) — Authorizing certain 911 personnel to be members of Emergency Medical Services Retirement System under certain circumstances

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb439%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=439)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb439%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=439)
3. **sb439 hfat criss 3-5 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/sb439%20hfat%20criss%203-5%20adopted.htm)
4. **sb439 hfin am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/sb439%20hfin%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Nelson — primary (person)
- Azinger — cosponsor (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
- Clements — cosponsor (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Oliverio — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Stuart — cosponsor (person)
- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-11** To Pensions then Finance
- **2024-01-12** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-01-12** To Pensions
- **2024-01-18** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2024-01-18** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2024-01-19** On 1st reading
- **2024-01-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-01-23** On 2nd reading
- **2024-01-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-01-24** On 3rd reading
- **2024-01-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-01-24** Passed Senate (Roll No. 58) `passage`
- **2024-01-24** Effective from passage (Roll No. 58)
- **2024-01-24** Ordered to House
- **2024-01-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-25** To Pensions and Retirement then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** To House Pensions and Retirement `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-14** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-14** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-06** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-03-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-07** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2024-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-03-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-08** Passed House (Roll No. 657) `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-03-08** Effective from passage (Roll No. 658)
- **2024-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-09** House Message received
- **2024-03-09** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 483)
- **2024-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 483)
- **2024-03-09** Communicated to House
- **2024-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2024-03-14** To Governor 3/14/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/14/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/14/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-23** Chapter 210, 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/add97be3-25ce-4d7d-acac-629eb8debb1a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).