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type: "Bill"
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title: "Authorizing municipalities to take action to grant certain fire department employees limited power of arrest"
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description: "Authorizing municipalities to take action to grant certain fire department employees limited power of arrest"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
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legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
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session: "2020"
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identifier: "HB 4715"
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citation: "West Virginia HB 4715 (2020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Municipalities"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Capito"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 40
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vote_count: 3
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first_action: "2020-02-06"
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last_action: "2020-04-15"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/62676272-7a5b-4f5e-b8bf-c33721fae3bb"
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source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4715&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
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source_hash: "c4532bde675507ee09293853621d8f62546722e9de6f09f14ad8ae908ced88e4"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
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---
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# West Virginia HB 4715 (2020) — Authorizing municipalities to take action to grant certain fire department employees limited power of arrest
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4715%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4715)
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2. **HB4715 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4715 S JUD AM _1 adopted.htm)
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3. **HB4715 S JUD AMT _1 3-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4715 S JUD AMT _1 3-3 adopted.htm)
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4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4715%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4715)
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## Votes
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- PASSAGE — **96–1** (pass) · lower
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- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
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- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **99–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Capito — primary (person)
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- Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
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- Byrd — cosponsor (person)
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- Estep-Burton — cosponsor (person)
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- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
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- Nelson — cosponsor (person)
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- Pushkin — cosponsor (person)
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- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
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- Rowe — cosponsor (person)
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- Skaff — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2020-02-06** Filed for introduction `filing`
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- **2020-02-06** To Political Subdivisions then Judiciary `referral-committee`
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- **2020-02-06** Introduced in House `introduction`
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- **2020-02-06** To House Political Subdivisions `referral-committee`
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- **2020-02-17** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
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- **2020-02-17** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
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- **2020-02-20** Do pass
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- **2020-02-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
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- **2020-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
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- **2020-02-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
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- **2020-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2020-02-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
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- **2020-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2020-02-25** Passed House (Roll No. 319) `passage`
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- **2020-02-25** Communicated to Senate
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- **2020-02-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
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- **2020-02-26** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
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- **2020-02-26** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
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- **2020-03-04** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
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- **2020-03-04** Immediate consideration
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- **2020-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
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- **2020-03-05** On 2nd reading
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- **2020-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2020-03-05** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
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- **2020-03-06** On 3rd reading
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- **2020-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2020-03-06** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 512) `passage`
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- **2020-03-06** Senate requests House to concur
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- **2020-03-07** House received Senate message
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- **2020-03-07** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 718)
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- **2020-03-07** Communicated to Senate
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- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
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- **2020-03-07** House Message received
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- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/17/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
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- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/17/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
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- **2020-03-17** To Governor 3/17/20 `executive-receipt`
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- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
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- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
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- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
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- **2020-04-15** Chapter 301, Acts, Regular Session, 2020
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/62676272-7a5b-4f5e-b8bf-c33721fae3bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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