republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/hb-5273.md

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Bill	Relating to the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System and clarifying payment upon death of member with less than 10 years of contributory service	Relating to the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System and clarifying payment upon death of member with less than 10 years of contributory service	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	HB 5273	West Virginia HB 5273 (2024)	bill	Retirement	enacted	Gearheart	3	34	2	2024-01-29	2024-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/e46af2e8-884b-41c8-8c54-28f63ce2e8d7	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5273&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	cff4d939c05f4939bdb5d2260ba9dd854c44ebbeb927ae5caff8cc64e905f7d4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. Enrolled Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source

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; origin ocd-bill/e46af2e8-884b-41c8-8c54-28f63ce2e8d7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).