republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/sb-445.md

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Bill	Reducing certification periods and renewal fees for EMS personnel	Reducing certification periods and renewal fees for EMS personnel	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	SB 445	West Virginia SB 445 (2024)	bill	Health	enacted	Deeds	4	43	3	2024-01-15	2024-04-23	openstates	ocd-bill/2b965142-c4fa-4a2f-8e5d-3c97794248d7	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=445&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	c8c2ad449c6b15ecac7ea6493f18bf9367e1bed247c66ec292d876b00135f966	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 445 (2024) — Reducing certification periods and renewal fees for EMS personnel

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. sb445 h go am _1 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Deeds — primary (person)
• Grady — cosponsor (person)
• Oliverio — cosponsor (person)
• Roberts — cosponsor (person)
• Rucker — cosponsor (person)
• Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Stover — cosponsor (person)
• Stuart — cosponsor (person)
• Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-15 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-15 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2024-01-15 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-01-15 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2024-01-24 Committee substitute reported
• 2024-01-25 On 1st reading
• 2024-01-25 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-01-26 On 2nd reading
• 2024-01-26 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-01-29 On 3rd reading
• 2024-01-29 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-01-29 Passed Senate (Roll No. 74) passage
• 2024-01-29 Effective from passage (Roll No. 74)
• 2024-01-29 Ordered to House
• 2024-01-30 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-30 To Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services then Government Organization
• 2024-01-30 To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services referral-committee
• 2024-02-22 With amendment, do pass, but first to Government Organization committee-passage
• 2024-02-22 To House Government Organization 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. 551) passage
• 2024-03-07 Effective from passage (Roll No. 552)
• 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. 469)
• 2024-03-08 Effective from passage (Roll No. 469)
• 2024-03-08 Communicated to House
• 2024-03-08 Completed legislative action
• 2024-03-13 To Governor 3/13/2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/13/2024 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/13/2024 - 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 211, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2b965142-c4fa-4a2f-8e5d-3c97794248d7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).