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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Increasing salary for certain state employees"
+description: "Increasing salary for certain state employees"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 423"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 423 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Agriculture", "Alcoholic Liquors and Beers", "Appropriations", "Banking and Finance", "Boards and Commissions", "Bonds", "Claims", "Compacts", "Constitutional Amendments", "Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Blair"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 48
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-23"
+last_action: "2023-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/02fed613-ae04-4bf9-b443-ccff6fa7a74f"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=423&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "c51b32d9010982597412523c7e3a4909730896f09d099eb81139c3cab8019c70"
+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 423 (2023) — Increasing salary for certain state employees
+
+## 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=sb423%20sub1.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=423)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb423%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=423)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb423%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=423)
+4. **sb423 hfa criss 3-3 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/sb423 hfa criss 3-3 _1 adopted.htm)
+5. **sb423 hfin am adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/sb423 hfin am adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Blair — primary (person)
+- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-23** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2023-01-23** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-23** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-01-23** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-22** Committee substitute reported
+- **2023-02-22** Immediate consideration
+- **2023-02-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-23** On 2nd reading
+- **2023-02-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-24** On 3rd reading
+- **2023-02-24** Laid over on 3rd reading 2/24/2023
+- **2023-02-25** Deferred until foot of 1st reading
+- **2023-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-25** Passed Senate (Roll No. 284) `passage`
+- **2023-02-25** Effective July 1, 2023 (Roll No. 284)
+- **2023-02-25** Ordered to House
+- **2023-02-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2023-02-27** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-27** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-02** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-02** Immediate consideration
+- **2023-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-03-03** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-04** On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-04** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2023-03-04** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2023-03-04** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2023-03-04** Amendment rejected (Voice vote) `amendment-failure`
+- **2023-03-04** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 477) `amendment-failure`
+- **2023-03-04** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 478) `amendment-failure`
+- **2023-03-04** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 479) `amendment-failure`
+- **2023-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-04** Passed House (Roll No. 480) `passage`
+- **2023-03-04** Effective July 1, 2023 (Roll No. 481)
+- **2023-03-04** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-03-06** House Message received
+- **2023-03-06** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 378)
+- **2023-03-06** Effective July 1, 2023 (Roll No. 378)
+- **2023-03-06** Communicated to House
+- **2023-03-06** Completed legislative action
+- **2023-03-06** House received Senate message
+- **2023-03-07** To Governor 3/7/2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-07** To Governor 3/7/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-17** Approved by Governor 3/17/2023 `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/17/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/17/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-01** Chapter 242, 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/02fed613-ae04-4bf9-b443-ccff6fa7a74f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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