Legislation: batch E — CA TN VA VT WA WI WV WY

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/wv/2026/sb-1038.md

@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Adjusting salaries for certain administrative law judges"
+description: "Adjusting salaries for certain administrative law judges"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 1038"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 1038 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Boards and Commissions"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Helton"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 40
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2026-02-21"
+last_action: "2026-06-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78ae2db0-dfc2-41e3-bd18-56524031115b"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=1038&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "1f2e3ca07c3d0cd7bd96a5740077d5e3720820bc5911ccb817810a7bb1e2b337"
+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 1038 (2026) — Adjusting salaries for certain administrative law judges
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb1038%20sub1.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=1038)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb1038%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=1038)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb1038%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=1038)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb1038%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=1038)
+5. **sb1038 sfa barrett _1 3-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/floor_amends/sb1038%20sfa%20barrett%20_1%203-3%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **96–1** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **94–3** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Helton — primary (person)
+- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
+- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
+- Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
+- Charnock — cosponsor (person)
+- Clements — cosponsor (person)
+- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
+- Fuller — cosponsor (person)
+- Grady — cosponsor (person)
+- M. Maynard — cosponsor (person)
+- Morris — cosponsor (person)
+- Oliverio — cosponsor (person)
+- Queen — cosponsor (person)
+- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
+- Rose — cosponsor (person)
+- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
+- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
+- Willis — cosponsor (person)
+- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-02-21** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2026-02-21** To Workforce then Finance
+- **2026-02-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2026-02-21** To Workforce
+- **2026-02-23** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
+- **2026-02-23** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-27** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2026-03-02** On 1st reading
+- **2026-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2026-03-03** On 2nd reading
+- **2026-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-03** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2026-03-04** On 3rd reading
+- **2026-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-04** Passed Senate (Roll No. 351) `passage`
+- **2026-03-04** Effective from passage (Roll No. 352)
+- **2026-03-04** Ordered to House
+- **2026-03-05** House received Senate message
+- **2026-03-05** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2026-03-05** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-05** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-11** Do pass
+- **2026-03-11** Immediate consideration
+- **2026-03-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2026-03-12** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-03-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-13** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-03-14** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-03-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-14** Passed House (Roll No. 622) `passage`
+- **2026-03-14** Effective from passage (Roll No. 623)
+- **2026-03-14** Communicated to Senate
+- **2026-03-14** Completed legislative action
+- **2026-03-14** House Message received
+- **2026-03-18** To Governor 3/18/2026 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-14** To Governor 3/18/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-04-01** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2026-06-25** Chapter 90, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/78ae2db0-dfc2-41e3-bd18-56524031115b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+