---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allowing EMS agencies to triage, treat or transport patients to alternate destinations"
description: "Allowing EMS agencies to triage, treat or transport patients to alternate destinations"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 533"
citation: "West Virginia SB 533 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Deeds"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 38
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-24"
last_action: "2024-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd1a3bd4-926c-4c22-8dd5-b2696741b54e"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=533&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "d12695e946e0d290c004f3b34f37599ee5f3d4437905461205755568567c5c71"
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 533 (2024) — Allowing EMS agencies to triage, treat or transport patients to alternate destinations

## 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=sb533%20sub1.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=533)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb533%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=533)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb533%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=533)
4. **sb533 h hhr am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/sb533%20h%20hhr%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)
5. **sb533 hfat summers 3-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/sb533%20hfat%20summers%203-7%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- SUSPEND CONSTITUTIONAL RULE — **87–4** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **92–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Deeds — primary (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Maroney — cosponsor (person)
- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- Swope — cosponsor (person)
- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-24** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-24** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-01-24** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-16** Committee substitute reported
- **2024-02-19** On 1st reading
- **2024-02-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-20** On 2nd reading
- **2024-02-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-21** On 3rd reading
- **2024-02-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-21** Passed Senate (Roll No. 190) `passage`
- **2024-02-21** Ordered to House
- **2024-02-22** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-02-22** To House Health and Human Resources `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)
- **2024-03-07** Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 609)
- **2024-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-07** Passed House (Roll No. 610) `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-08** House Message received
- **2024-03-08** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 470)
- **2024-03-08** Communicated to House
- **2024-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-19** To Governor 3/19/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/19/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/19/24 - 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 214, 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/cd1a3bd4-926c-4c22-8dd5-b2696741b54e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).