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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to financing municipal policemen’s and firemen’s pension and relief funds"
+description: "Relating to financing municipal policemen’s and firemen’s pension and relief funds"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 3148"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 3148 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Storch"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 40
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-30"
+last_action: "2023-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3fc4fc3f-caf7-4e6b-afab-f6a5db6ed22b"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3148&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "c4c33f978c91a9113d985350eaf3f721940b7d047fa51bd0fe17ec247715783b"
+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 3148 (2023) — Relating to financing municipal policemen’s and firemen’s pension and relief funds
+
+## 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=hb3148%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3148)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3148%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3148)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3148%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3148)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Storch — primary (person)
+- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
+- Marple — cosponsor (person)
+- Pritt, C. — cosponsor (person)
+- Pritt, E. — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-30** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2023-01-30** To Pensions and Retirement then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-30** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2023-01-30** 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** By substitute, 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** Placed on House Calendar
+- **2023-02-23** On 3rd reading, House Calendar
+- **2023-02-23** From House Calendar, 3rd reading, placed on Special Calendar
+- **2023-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-23** Passed House (Roll No. 217) `passage`
+- **2023-02-23** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-02-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-02-24** To Pensions then Finance
+- **2023-02-24** To Pensions
+- **2023-03-01** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-01** 2nd reference dispensed
+- **2023-03-02** On 1st reading
+- **2023-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-03-03** On 2nd reading
+- **2023-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-06** On 3rd reading
+- **2023-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-06** Passed Senate (Roll No. 385) `passage`
+- **2023-03-06** Communicated to House
+- **2023-03-06** Completed legislative action
+- **2023-03-06** House received Senate message
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/16/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/16/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-16** To Governor 3/16/2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/23/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/23/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-23** Approved by Governor 3/23/2023 `executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-01** Chapter 89, 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/3fc4fc3f-caf7-4e6b-afab-f6a5db6ed22b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+