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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Preserving previously approved state Municipal Policemen's or Firemen's pensions"
+description: "Preserving previously approved state Municipal Policemen's or Firemen's pensions"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "SB 316"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 316 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Municipalities", "Retirement"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Plymale"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 46
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2019-01-16"
+last_action: "2019-04-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d7846d08-b65b-4baa-91fa-742d5fcd4e81"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=316&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "352466e1ac98daf9d93e5a9342148cc21aff8b960e9c29e20c651b00180e7d8a"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
+---
+
+# West Virginia SB 316 (2019) — Preserving previously approved state Municipal Policemen's or Firemen's pensions
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB316%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=316)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB316%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=316)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB316%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=316)
+4. **SB316 SFAT _1 PLYMALE 2-23 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/SB316 SFAT _1 PLYMALE 2-23 adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Plymale — primary (person)
+- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
+- Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
+- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
+- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2019-01-16** To Pensions then Finance
+- **2019-01-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-01-16** To Pensions
+- **2019-02-07** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
+- **2019-02-07** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-21** Committee substitute reported
+- **2019-02-22** On 1st reading
+- **2019-02-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-23** On 2nd reading
+- **2019-02-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-25** On 3rd reading
+- **2019-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-25** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 215) `passage`
+- **2019-02-25** Ordered to House
+- **2019-02-26** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2019-02-26** To Pensions and Retirement then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-26** To House Pensions and Retirement `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-27** Do pass, but first to Finance
+- **2019-02-27** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-01** With title amendment, do pass
+- **2019-03-02** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-03-04** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 453) `passage`
+- **2019-03-05** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2019-03-05** Taken up for further consideration
+- **2019-03-05** Effective from passage (Roll No. 463)
+- **2019-03-05** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-03-06** House Message received
+- **2019-03-06** Senate concurred in House title amendment (Voice vote)
+- **2019-03-06** Passed Senate (Roll No. 368) `passage`
+- **2019-03-06** Effective from passage (Roll No. 368)
+- **2019-03-06** Communicated to House
+- **2019-03-06** Completed legislative action
+- **2019-03-07** House received Senate message
+- **2019-03-20** To Governor 3/20/19 `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/20/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/20/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
+- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
+- **2019-04-16** Chapter 62, Acts, Regular Session, 2019
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d7846d08-b65b-4baa-91fa-742d5fcd4e81`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+