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legislation/us/states/wv/2023/sb-597.md

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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Allowing Workforce WV to hire classified service exempt employees"
+description: "Allowing Workforce WV to hire classified service exempt employees"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 597"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 597 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Unemployment Compensation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Woodrum"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 37
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-02-09"
+last_action: "2023-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36d9afd0-55d3-47ac-9308-0862017313f6"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=597&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "6b823893886e68cee3075d837b4e7e1443ff2ae65de34e2310a4dae3d7881d41"
+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 597 (2023) — Allowing Workforce WV to hire classified service exempt employees
+
+## 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=sb597%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=597)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb597%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=597)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Woodrum — primary (person)
+- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-02-09** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2023-02-09** To Workforce
+- **2023-02-09** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-02-09** To Workforce
+- **2023-02-20** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-02-21** On 1st reading
+- **2023-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-22** On 2nd reading
+- **2023-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-23** On 3rd reading
+- **2023-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-23** Passed Senate (Roll No. 249) `passage`
+- **2023-02-23** Ordered to House
+- **2023-02-23** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2023-02-23** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-23** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-02** Do pass
+- **2023-03-03** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-03-04** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-04** Placed on House Calendar
+- **2023-03-07** On 2nd reading, House Calendar
+- **2023-03-07** From House Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-08** Passed House (Roll No. 560) `passage`
+- **2023-03-08** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-03-08** Completed legislative action
+- **2023-03-09** House Message received
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/13/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-13** To Governor 3/13/2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/13/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/23 `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/23 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-01** Chapter 166, 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/36d9afd0-55d3-47ac-9308-0862017313f6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+