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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to authorized expenditures of revenues from certain state funds for fire departments"
+description: "Relating to authorized expenditures of revenues from certain state funds for fire departments"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 2283"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2283 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Municipalities"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Statler"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 37
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-11"
+last_action: "2023-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/52b1704c-fad6-4871-b734-93db2f724a5b"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2283&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "61482b41f90b0b9ed2e3fe7f2e1f255332b60bc8b571a6bef9ac5f42ddc8c338"
+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 2283 (2023) — Relating to authorized expenditures of revenues from certain state funds for fire departments
+
+## 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=hb2283%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2283)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2283%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2283)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Statler — primary (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`
+- **2023-02-08** Do pass, but first to Finance
+- **2023-02-08** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-16** Do pass
+- **2023-02-17** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-02-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-20** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-02-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-21** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-02-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-21** Passed House (Roll No. 194) `passage`
+- **2023-02-21** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-02-23** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-02-23** To Pensions then Finance
+- **2023-02-23** 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
+- **2023-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 426) `passage`
+- **2023-03-08** Communicated to House
+- **2023-03-08** Completed legislative action
+- **2023-03-08** House received Senate message
+- **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 86, 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/52b1704c-fad6-4871-b734-93db2f724a5b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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