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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Authorizing municipalities with police or firefighter employees in PERS to elect to become participating employer in Municipal Police Officer and Firefighter Retirement System for a limited time"
+description: "Authorizing municipalities with police or firefighter employees in PERS to elect to become participating employer in Municipal Police Officer and Firefighter Retirement System for a limited time"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 2026"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2026 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Retirement"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Clark"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 49
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-11"
+last_action: "2023-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b6cbd6b3-2369-47e7-81cb-6f5492e144b9"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2026&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "1f163a68a0414f15b2d0c0f9d5cac2ab6cf6e2044977c23c79416cde956c9f9c"
+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 HB 2026 (2023) — Authorizing municipalities with police or firefighter employees in PERS to elect to become participating employer in Municipal Police Officer and Firefighter Retirement System for a limited time
+
+## 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=hb2026%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2026)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2026%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2026)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2026%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2026)
+4. **hb2026 hfa criss and householder 3-11 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2026 hfa criss and householder 3-11 _1 adopted.htm)
+5. **hb2026 hfat criss and householder 3-11 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2026 hfat criss and householder 3-11 adopted.htm)
+6. **hb2026 sfa nelson _ 3-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2026 sfa nelson _ 3-7 adopted.htm)
+7. **hb2026 sfa weld _1 3-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2026 sfa weld _1 3-9 adopted.htm)
+8. **hb2026 sfat weld _2 3-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2026 sfat weld _2 3-9 adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **31–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Clark — primary (person)
+- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
+- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
+- Honaker — cosponsor (person)
+- Horst — cosponsor (person)
+- Worrell — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2023-01-11** To Pensions and Retirement then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-11** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2023-01-11** To House Pensions and Retirement `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-15** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-15** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-23** By substitute, do pass
+- **2023-02-24** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-27** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-02-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-27** Passed House (Roll No. 288) `passage`
+- **2023-02-27** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-02-28** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-02-28** To Pensions then Finance
+- **2023-02-28** To Pensions
+- **2023-03-06** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-06** 2nd reference dispensed
+- **2023-03-06** Immediate consideration
+- **2023-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-03-07** On 2nd reading
+- **2023-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-08** On 3rd reading with right to amend
+- **2023-03-08** Laid over on 3rd reading 3/8/2023 with right to amend
+- **2023-03-09** Laid over on 3rd reading 3/9/2023 with right to amend
+- **2023-03-10** Rearranged on Calendar by Rules Committee
+- **2023-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-10** Weld floor amendment reported
+- **2023-03-10** Nelson amend to Weld amend adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2023-03-10** Weld floor amendment as amended adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2023-03-10** Passed Senate (Roll No. 536) `passage`
+- **2023-03-10** Title amendment adopted
+- **2023-03-10** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2023-03-11** House received Senate message
+- **2023-03-11** House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 754)
+- **2023-03-11** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-03-11** House Message received
+- **2023-03-11** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 618)
+- **2023-03-11** Communicated to House
+- **2023-03-11** Completed legislative action
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/20/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/20/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-20** To Governor 3/20/2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 `executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-01** Chapter 85, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b6cbd6b3-2369-47e7-81cb-6f5492e144b9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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