republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/hb-5347.md

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Bill	Relating to establishing a program for emergency medical services personnel to become certified paramedics	Relating to establishing a program for emergency medical services personnel to become certified paramedics	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	HB 5347	West Virginia HB 5347 (2024)	bill	Education (Higher) Professions and Occupations	enacted	Jennings	7	45	5	2024-01-30	2024-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/19cf0e12-27d7-4be0-8e7a-7336d0c145b6	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5347&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	220c54de8c041532bd7a483df03d5b195b823479569d6e98858b02c9c92cb923	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 5347 (2024) — Relating to establishing a program for emergency medical services personnel to become certified paramedics

Version chain

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

1. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
5. hb5347 hfa summers 2-19 _1 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
6. hb5347 s h_hr am _ 2-27 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
7. hb5347 s h_hr amt _ 2-27 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• EFFECT July 01, 2024 — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• EFFECT July 01, 2024 — 100–0 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE — 100–0 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 97–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jennings — primary (person)
• Mallow — cosponsor (person)
• Shamblin — cosponsor (person)
• Statler — cosponsor (person)
• Tully — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-30 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-30 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2024-01-30 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-30 To House Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2024-02-16 By substitute, do pass
• 2024-02-19 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-19 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-20 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-20 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-20 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2024-02-20 Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-02-21 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-21 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-21 Passed House (Roll No. 254) passage
• 2024-02-21 Effective July 1, 2024 (Roll No. 255)
• 2024-02-21 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-02-22 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-02-22 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2024-02-27 Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment committee-passage
• 2024-02-27 Immediate consideration
• 2024-02-27 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-28 On 2nd reading
• 2024-02-28 Laid over on 2nd reading 2/28/2024
• 2024-02-29 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-29 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-03-01 On 3rd reading
• 2024-03-01 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-01 Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 332) passage
• 2024-03-01 Effective July 1, 2024 (Roll No. 332)
• 2024-03-01 Senate requests House to concur
• 2024-03-04 House received Senate message
• 2024-03-04 Immediate consideration
• 2024-03-04 House concurred in Senate amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 442)
• 2024-03-04 Effective July 1, 2024 (Roll No. 443)
• 2024-03-04 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-03-04 Completed legislative action
• 2024-03-05 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 225, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/19cf0e12-27d7-4be0-8e7a-7336d0c145b6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).