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Bill To clarify that counties can hire fire fighters as paid staff and to modify the existing procedures to include a procedure of public hearing to commission a vote To clarify that counties can hire fire fighters as paid staff and to modify the existing procedures to include a procedure of public hearing to commission a vote us/states/wv West Virginia Legislature 2021 HB 2953 West Virginia HB 2953 (2021)
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West Virginia HB 2953 (2021) — To clarify that counties can hire fire fighters as paid staff and to modify the existing procedures to include a procedure of public hearing to commission a vote

Version chain

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

  1. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
  2. Enrolled Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
  3. HB2953 HFAT CAPITO 3-24 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/HB2953 HFAT CAPITO 3-24 adopted.htm)
  4. HB2953 S GOV AMT _2 4-6 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB2953 S GOV AMT _2 4-6 adopted.htm)
  5. HB2953 SFA _3 STOLLINGS 4-9 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/HB2953 SFA _3 STOLLINGS 4-9 adopted.htm)
  6. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
  7. Stollings Floor amendment #3 adopted (Roll No. 416) (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Passage — 00 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

  • Hardy — primary (person)
  • Clark — cosponsor (person)
  • Forsht — cosponsor (person)
  • Graves — cosponsor (person)
  • Hott — cosponsor (person)
  • Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
  • Jennings — cosponsor (person)
  • Linville — cosponsor (person)
  • Storch — cosponsor (person)
  • Tully — cosponsor (person)
  • Westfall — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2021-03-05 Filed for introduction filing
  • 2021-03-05 To Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services then Judiciary
  • 2021-03-05 Introduced in House introduction
  • 2021-03-05 To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services referral-committee
  • 2021-03-11 With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary committee-passage
  • 2021-03-11 To House Judiciary referral-committee
  • 2021-03-22 By substitute, do pass
  • 2021-03-23 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
  • 2021-03-23 Read 1st time reading-1
  • 2021-03-24 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
  • 2021-03-24 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2021-03-25 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
  • 2021-03-25 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2021-03-25 Passed House (Roll No. 277) passage
  • 2021-03-25 Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
  • 2021-03-25 Communicated to Senate
  • 2021-03-26 Introduced in Senate introduction
  • 2021-03-26 To Government Organization referral-committee
  • 2021-03-26 To Government Organization referral-committee
  • 2021-04-06 Reported do pass, with title amendment committee-passage
  • 2021-04-07 On 1st reading
  • 2021-04-07 Read 1st time reading-1
  • 2021-04-08 On 2nd reading
  • 2021-04-08 Read 2nd time reading-2
  • 2021-04-09 On 3rd reading with right to amend
  • 2021-04-09 Stollings Floor amendment #1 rejected (Roll No. 415)
  • 2021-04-09 Stollings Floor amendment #3 adopted (Roll No. 416)
  • 2021-04-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
  • 2021-04-09 Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 417) passage
  • 2021-04-09 Senate requests House to concur
  • 2021-04-10 House received Senate message
  • 2021-04-10 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 595)
  • 2021-04-10 Communicated to Senate
  • 2021-04-10 Completed legislative action
  • 2021-04-10 House Message received
  • 2021-04-10 To Governor 4/22/21 - House Journal executive-receipt
  • 2021-04-22 To Governor 4/22/21 executive-receipt
  • 2021-04-10 To Governor 4/22/21 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
  • 2021-04-10 Approved by Governor 4/26/21 - Senate Journal
  • 2021-04-10 Approved by Governor 4/26/21 - House Journal
  • 2021-04-26 Approved by Governor 4/26/21 executive-signature
  • 2021-05-20 Chapter 77, Acts, Regular Session, 2021

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ba3daa51-537a-41d3-bae6-07edf3c78357. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).