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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Increasing annual salaries of certain state employees"
+description: "Increasing annual salaries of certain state employees"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "SB 531"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 531 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Blair"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 43
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2022-02-01"
+last_action: "2022-04-20"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/66f3cea4-0559-4444-8921-1f71df887a2d"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=531&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "8313b17acf6bbf144f87251d6960209fc78b3bf2ec169a80e969deda734d0aea"
+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 531 (2022) — Increasing annual salaries of certain state employees
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee amendment adopted (Roll No. 377)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2022/RS/votes/house/00377.pdf)
+2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB531%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=531)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB531%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=531)
+4. **SB531 HFIN AM 3-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/SB531 HFIN AM 3-2 adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Blair — primary (person)
+- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-02-01** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2022-02-01** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2022-02-01** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-10** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2022-02-11** On 1st reading
+- **2022-02-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2022-02-14** On 2nd reading
+- **2022-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-15** On 3rd reading with right to amend
+- **2022-02-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2022-02-15** Baldwin amendment reported
+- **2022-02-15** Amendment not germane
+- **2022-02-15** Lindsay amendment rejected (Roll No. 130)
+- **2022-02-15** Passed Senate (Roll No. 131) `passage`
+- **2022-02-15** Effective July 1, 2022 (Roll No. 131)
+- **2022-02-15** Ordered to House
+- **2022-02-15** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2022-02-15** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-15** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-03** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2022-03-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2022-03-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2022-03-05** Committee amendment adopted (Roll No. 377)
+- **2022-03-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2022-03-07** Passed House (Roll No. 388) `passage`
+- **2022-03-07** Effective July 1, 2022 (Roll No. 389)
+- **2022-03-07** Communicated to Senate
+- **2022-03-10** House Message received
+- **2022-03-10** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 422)
+- **2022-03-10** Effective July 1, 2022 (Roll No. 422)
+- **2022-03-10** Communicated to House
+- **2022-03-10** Completed legislative action
+- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/15/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-15** To Governor 3/15/2022 `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/15/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - House Journal
+- **2022-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 `executive-signature`
+- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - Senate Journal
+- **2022-04-20** Chapter 216, Acts, Regular Session, 2022
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/66f3cea4-0559-4444-8921-1f71df887a2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+