republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/hb-5617.md

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Bill	Authorizing the Public Service Commission to promulgate rules for maintenance, flushing, flow testing, and marking of fire hydrants owned by water utilities	Authorizing the Public Service Commission to promulgate rules for maintenance, flushing, flow testing, and marking of fire hydrants owned by water utilities	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	HB 5617	West Virginia HB 5617 (2024)	bill	Public Service Commission	enacted	Linville	3	38	2	2024-02-12	2024-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/759a4b45-b2d6-4b59-a607-d314c749bafc	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5617&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	2d28a136ac13d9050e9abf80ed640cc3cbe6bfea0e94ab0241d81a7c19f9a5d2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 5617 (2024) — Authorizing the Public Service Commission to promulgate rules for maintenance, flushing, flow testing, and marking of fire hydrants owned by water utilities

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 — 89–2 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Linville — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-12 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-02-12 To Technology and Infrastructure then Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-02-12 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-02-12 To House Technology and Infrastructure referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary committee-passage
• 2024-02-22 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-02-23 By substitute, do pass
• 2024-02-26 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-27 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-27 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-27 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-28 On 3rd reading with amendment pending and right to amend, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-28 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2024-02-28 Amendment withdrawn (Voice vote)
• 2024-02-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Passed House (Roll No. 404) passage
• 2024-02-28 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-02-29 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-02-29 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2024-03-04 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2024-03-04 Immediate consideration
• 2024-03-04 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-03-05 On 2nd reading
• 2024-03-05 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-06 On 3rd reading
• 2024-03-06 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-06 Passed Senate (Roll No. 396) passage
• 2024-03-06 Communicated to House
• 2024-03-06 Completed legislative action
• 2024-03-06 House received Senate message
• 2024-03-13 To Governor 3/13/2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/13/2024 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/13/2024 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/20/204 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2024-03-20 Approved by Governor 3/20/2024 executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/20/2024 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2024-04-22 Chapter 240, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/759a4b45-b2d6-4b59-a607-d314c749bafc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).