republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/hb-4829.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Relating to employment of service personnel and removing the requirement for a high school diploma or general education development certificate.	Relating to employment of service personnel and removing the requirement for a high school diploma or general education development certificate.	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	HB 4829	West Virginia HB 4829 (2024)	bill	Education (K12)	enacted	Toney	5	38	3	2024-01-17	2024-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/8481e99e-7656-4d14-b3d3-6047b82513ef	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4829&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	f9917a76287e70d27cacee0428e2ee49800bb824da0d3a4b0364ca4d0fd36410	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4829 (2024) — Relating to employment of service personnel and removing the requirement for a high school diploma or general education development certificate.

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. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
4. hb4829 s ed am _1 3-4 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
5. hb4829 s ed amt _1 3-4 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 88–11 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 89–5 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Toney — primary (person)
• Adkins — cosponsor (person)
• Campbell — cosponsor (person)
• Clark, W. — cosponsor (person)
• Ellington — cosponsor (person)
• Ferrell — cosponsor (person)
• Holstein — cosponsor (person)
• Statler — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-17 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-17 To Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-17 To House Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 By substitute, do pass
• 2024-02-23 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-23 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-26 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-26 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-27 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-27 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-27 Passed House (Roll No. 314) passage
• 2024-02-27 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-02-28 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-02-28 To Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-28 To Education referral-committee
• 2024-03-05 Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment committee-passage
• 2024-03-05 Immediate consideration
• 2024-03-05 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-03-06 On 2nd reading
• 2024-03-06 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-06 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-03-07 On 3rd reading
• 2024-03-07 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-07 Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 408) passage
• 2024-03-07 Senate requests House to concur
• 2024-03-08 House received Senate message
• 2024-03-08 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 690)
• 2024-03-08 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-03-08 Completed legislative action
• 2024-03-09 House Message received
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/21/2024 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-21 To Governor 3/21/2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/21/2024 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2024-03-27 Approved by Governor 3/27/24 executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2024-04-22 Chapter 244, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8481e99e-7656-4d14-b3d3-6047b82513ef. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).