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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Allowing temporary legislative employees be eligible for unemployment benefits coverage"
+description: "Allowing temporary legislative employees be eligible for unemployment benefits coverage"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 534"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 534 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Unemployment Compensation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Trump"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 38
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-17"
+last_action: "2020-04-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6dc95ae2-6555-4e6d-adae-7889a59ef0ec"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=534&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "2d862427041f6612aa19c088006ad5dab6e6196e308908475d6c639437b47479"
+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 534 (2020) — Allowing temporary legislative employees be eligible for unemployment benefits coverage
+
+## 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=SB534%20SUB1.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=534)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB534%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=534)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB534%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=534)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Trump — primary (person)
+- Blair — cosponsor (person)
+- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
+- Ihlenfeld — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2020-01-17** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-17** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-01-17** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-29** Committee substitute reported
+- **2020-01-30** On 1st reading
+- **2020-01-30** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-01-31** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-01-31** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-03** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-02-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-03** Passed Senate (Roll No. 55) `passage`
+- **2020-02-03** Ordered to House
+- **2020-02-04** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2020-02-04** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-04** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-12** Do pass
+- **2020-02-13** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-17** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-18** From Special Calendar, 3rd reading, placed on House Calendar
+- **2020-02-28** On 3rd reading, House Calendar
+- **2020-02-28** From House Calendar, 3rd reading, placed on Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-28** Placed at foot of bills on third reading
+- **2020-02-28** Passed House (Roll No. 414) `passage`
+- **2020-02-28** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-02-28** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-02-29** House Message received
+- **2020-03-10** To Governor 3/10/20 `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/10/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/10/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - House Journal
+- **2020-03-24** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - Senate Journal
+- **2020-04-14** Chapter 255, Acts, Regular Session, 2020
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6dc95ae2-6555-4e6d-adae-7889a59ef0ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+