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Proposed West Virginia Firearm Legislation HB2720

Legislation Overview

Title: Authorizing certain investigators and first responders to carry firearms

Subject: Finance and Administration

Description: The purpose of this bill is to authorize supervising entities to authorize reserve deputies, ambulance crew members, firefighters, rescue squad members and emergency service personnel to carry firearms. It specifies the training required for them to be eligible to carry a firearm and allows them to be reimbursed for the cost of the training.

Session: 2019 Regular Session

Last Action: To Health and Human Resources

Last Action Date: February 14, 2019

Sponsors

Note: the first sponsor listed is normally the primary sponsor. If a sponsor's name is a hyperlink you can click on it to 'follow the money'.

6 sponsors: David Pethtel (D); Chad Lovejoy (D); John Shott (R); Brent Boggs (D); Anthony Paynter (R); Jason Harshbarger (R);

Percentage of House Of Delegates sponsoring bill: 6% (6 of 100)

History

Chamber	Date	Action
Senate	Feb 14, 2019	House Message received
Senate	Feb 14, 2019	To Health and Human Resources
Senate	Feb 14, 2019	To Health and Human Resources then Judiciary
Senate	Feb 14, 2019	Introduced in Senate
House	Feb 13, 2019	Read 3rd time
House	Feb 13, 2019	On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
House	Feb 13, 2019	Passed House (Roll No. 137)
House	Feb 13, 2019	Communicated to Senate
House	Feb 12, 2019	On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
House	Feb 12, 2019	Read 2nd time
House	Feb 11, 2019	On 1st reading, Special Calendar
House	Feb 11, 2019	Read 1st time
House	Feb 8, 2019	By substitute, do pass
House	Feb 5, 2019	Do pass, but first to Judiciary
House	Feb 5, 2019	To House Judiciary
House	Jan 29, 2019	To Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services then Judiciary
House	Jan 29, 2019	Filed for introduction
House	Jan 29, 2019	To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services
House	Jan 29, 2019	Introduced in House

Texts

Type	Date	State Link	Text
Comm Sub	not available	state link	bill text
Introduced	not available	state link	bill text

Amendments

Title	Description	Date	State Link	Text	Adopted
There are no amendments to this bill at this time

Votes - Click on description to view vote roll call

Description	Vote Date	Yea Votes	Nay Votes	No Votes	Absent	Passed
Passed House (Roll No. 137)	02/13/2019	91	8	1	0	Yes
Anderson, William (R) Yea Atkinson, Martin (R) Yea Azinger, Mike (R) Yea Barrett, Jason (D) Yea Bates, Mick (D) Yea Boggs, Brent (D) Yea Butler, Jim (R) Yea Byrd, Andrew (D) Yea Campbell, Jeff (R) Yea Canestraro, Joseph (D) Yea Capito, Moore (R) Yea Caputo, Michael (D) Nay Cooper, Roy (R) Yea Cowles, Daryl (R) Yea Criss, Adrian (R) Yea Dean, Daniel (R) Yea Diserio, Phillip (D) Yea Ellington, Joe (R) Yea Espinosa, Paul (R) Yea Evans, Allen (R) Yea Fast, Tom (R) Yea Fleischauer, Barbara (D) Nay Fluharty, Shawn (D) Yea Foster, Geoff (R) Yea Graves, Dianna (R) Yea Hamrick, Danny (R) Yea Hanshaw, Roger (R) Yea Harshbarger, Jason (R) Yea Hartman, William (D) Yea Hicks, Kenneth (D) Yea Higginbotham, Joshua (R) Yea Hill, Jordan (R) Yea Hollen, Ray (R) Yea Hornbuckle, Sean (D) Yea Householder, Eric (R) Yea Howell, Gary (R) Yea Jennings, D. Roland (R) Yea Kelly, John (R) Yea Kessinger, Kayla (R) Yea Longstreth, Linda (D) Nay Lovejoy, Chad (D) Yea Martin, Patrick (R) Yea Maynard, Zachery (R) Yea McGeehan, Pat (R) Yea Miley, Tim (D) Yea Miller, Rodney (D) Yea Nelson, Fredrik (R) Yea Pack, Jeffrey (R) Yea Paynter, Anthony (R) Yea Pethtel, David (D) Yea Pushkin, Mike (D) Yea Pyles, Rodney (D) Yea Queen, Bennett (R) Yea Robinson, Andrew (D) Yea Rodighiero, Ralph (D) Yea Rohrbach, Matthew (R) Yea Rowan, Ruth (R) Yea Rowe, Larry (D) Yea Shott, John (R) Yea Sponaugle, Isaac (D) Yea Storch, Erikka (R) Yea Summers, Amy (R) Yea Sypolt, Terrishie (R) Yea Thompson, Robert (D) Yea Westfall, Steve (R) Yea Williams, John (D) Yea Wilson, Stephen (R) Yea
resort votes by: party yeas nays name

Link: link to state bill page