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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Clarifying Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System surviving spouse benefits"
+description: "Clarifying Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System surviving spouse benefits"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 607"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 607 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Retirement"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Nelson"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 32
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-01-31"
+last_action: "2024-04-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58c9a7de-ce32-49ec-82ad-d51a32c6dc9f"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=607&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "499d931ef5d2a6add92a5d87105e4de9ccdc9e5722a9a835b139b2748f2b017d"
+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 607 (2024) — Clarifying Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System surviving spouse benefits
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb607%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=607)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb607%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=607)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Nelson — primary (person)
+- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
+- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
+- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-31** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2024-01-31** To Pensions then Finance
+- **2024-01-31** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2024-01-31** To Pensions
+- **2024-02-08** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
+- **2024-02-08** 2nd reference dispensed
+- **2024-02-09** On 1st reading
+- **2024-02-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-12** On 2nd reading
+- **2024-02-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-13** On 3rd reading
+- **2024-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-13** Passed Senate (Roll No. 126) `passage`
+- **2024-02-13** Ordered to House
+- **2024-02-14** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2024-02-14** Immediate consideration
+- **2024-02-14** Reference dispensed
+- **2024-02-15** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-02-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-15** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-16** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-02-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-16** Passed House (Roll No. 200) `passage`
+- **2024-02-16** Communicated to Senate
+- **2024-02-16** Completed legislative action
+- **2024-02-19** House Message received
+- **2024-02-22** To Governor 2/22/2024 `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-02-23** To Governor 2/22/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-02-28** Approved by Governor 2/28/2024 `executive-signature`
+- **2024-02-29** Approved by Governor 2/28/2024 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2024-04-23** Chapter 68, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/58c9a7de-ce32-49ec-82ad-d51a32c6dc9f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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