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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to return of member's paid contributions to heirs after member's death under certain circumstances"
+description: "Relating to return of member's paid contributions to heirs after member's death under certain circumstances"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 459"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 459 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Retirement"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Nelson"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-02-25"
+last_action: "2021-05-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/51f6ef6a-b8b4-46cc-85de-dc6b15fd0acb"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=459&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "77fc13f32d362b751252bd3bbb62134fd1ca085190ba1ce2a00740cd97bf87a1"
+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 459 (2021) — Relating to return of member's paid contributions to heirs after member's death under certain circumstances
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB459%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=459)
+2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB459%20ORG.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=459)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Nelson — primary (person)
+- Azinger — cosponsor (person)
+- Clements — cosponsor (person)
+- Karnes — cosponsor (person)
+- Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
+- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
+- Trump — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-25** Originating in Senate Pensions
+- **2021-02-25** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-02-26** On 1st reading
+- **2021-02-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2021-02-26** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 45)
+- **2021-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-02-26** Passed Senate (Roll No. 46) `passage`
+- **2021-02-26** Effective from passage (Roll No. 46)
+- **2021-02-26** Ordered to House
+- **2021-03-01** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2021-03-01** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-01** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-04** Do pass
+- **2021-03-04** Immediate consideration
+- **2021-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2021-03-04** Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 76)
+- **2021-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-03-04** Passed House (Roll No. 77) `passage`
+- **2021-03-04** Effective from passage (Roll No. 78)
+- **2021-03-04** Communicated to Senate
+- **2021-03-04** Completed legislative action
+- **2021-03-05** House Message received
+- **2021-03-10** To Governor 3/10/21 `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-03-11** To Governor 3/10/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-03-17** Approved by Governor 3/16/21 - House Journal
+- **2021-03-16** Approved by Governor 3/16/21 `executive-signature`
+- **2021-03-17** Approved by Governor 3/16/21 - Senate Journal
+- **2021-05-24** Chapter 69, Acts, Regular Session, 2021
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/51f6ef6a-b8b4-46cc-85de-dc6b15fd0acb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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