republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/sb-170.md

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Bill	Relating to compensable diseases of certain firefighters covered by workers' compensation	Relating to compensable diseases of certain firefighters covered by workers' compensation	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	SB 170	West Virginia SB 170 (2024)	bill	Workers Compensation	enacted	Weld	3	42	3	2024-01-10	2024-04-23	openstates	ocd-bill/c72e408a-b734-4015-aec0-5d22de14a3a6	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=170&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	a95a1b86af460fbd016cf700a1caa69540d2f8ada5351fbb81bee09f19b8f2b4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 170 (2024) — Relating to compensable diseases of certain firefighters covered by workers' compensation

Version chain

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

1. Enrolled Version (committee substitute) — source
2. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
3. sb170 hfin am adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — 99–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Weld — primary (person)
• Deeds — cosponsor (person)
• Grady — cosponsor (person)
• Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
• Oliverio — cosponsor (person)
• Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• Queen — cosponsor (person)
• Stuart — cosponsor (person)
• Swope — cosponsor (person)
• Takubo — cosponsor (person)
• Tarr — cosponsor (person)
• Woodrum — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-10 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-01-10 Committee reference dispensed
• 2024-01-10 Immediate consideration
• 2024-01-10 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-01-11 On 2nd reading
• 2024-01-11 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-01-12 On 3rd reading
• 2024-01-12 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-01-12 Passed Senate (Roll No. 26) passage
• 2024-01-12 Effective from passage (Roll No. 26)
• 2024-01-12 Ordered to House
• 2024-01-15 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-15 To Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services then Judiciary
• 2024-01-15 To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 Do pass, but first to Finance
• 2024-02-22 To House Finance referral-committee
• 2024-03-04 With amendment, do pass committee-passage
• 2024-03-05 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-03-05 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-03-06 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-03-06 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-06 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2024-03-06 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-03-07 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-03-07 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-07 Passed House (Roll No. 542) passage
• 2024-03-07 Effective from passage (Roll No. 543)
• 2024-03-07 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-03-08 House Message received
• 2024-03-08 Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 465)
• 2024-03-08 Effective from passage (Roll No. 465)
• 2024-03-08 Communicated to House
• 2024-03-08 Completed legislative action
• 2024-03-08 House received Senate message
• 2024-03-12 To Governor 3/12/2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/12/2024 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/12/2024 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-26 Approved by Governor 3/26/2024 executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/26/2024 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2024-04-23 Chapter 270, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c72e408a-b734-4015-aec0-5d22de14a3a6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).