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WV Legislative Interims: Committee looks at VFD, EMS funding legislation

Plan would cost household less than $20 a year

By Matt Young, WV Press Association

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A previously failed plan for volunteer fire departments and emergency medical service providers to receive additional financial support may be getting new life. 

HB 3153, which died during the most recent Legislative Session, was a primary topic of discussion during Tuesday’s meeting of the legislature’s Joint Committee on Volunteer Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services.

Committee Counsel…