---
type: "Bill"
title: "Providing for paid leave for certain state officers and employees during a declared state of emergency"
description: "Providing for paid leave for certain state officers and employees during a declared state of emergency"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 2869"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2869 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Personnel"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mr. Speaker"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 43
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/665b546f-5d24-4ff6-aae0-e96ec7304fb0"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2869&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "54af76d797e3a0f959adb64921c68a06984c017c43d8b1ed53380ef69ccc12c8"
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 2869 (2018) — Providing for paid leave for certain state officers and employees during a declared state of emergency

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2869%20ENG.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=2869)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2869%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=2869)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2869%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=2869)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Mr. Speaker — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-01-10** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-12** Do pass
- **2018-01-15** On 1st reading, House Calendar
- **2018-01-15** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-16** On 2nd reading, House Calendar
- **2018-01-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-01-16** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2018-01-17** On 3rd reading, House Calendar
- **2018-01-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-01-17** Passed House (Roll No. 2) `passage`
- **2018-01-17** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-01-18** House Message received
- **2018-01-18** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-01-18** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-18** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-07** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-07** Immediate consideration
- **2018-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-08** On 2nd reading
- **2018-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2018-03-09** On 3rd reading
- **2018-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-09** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 419) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2018-03-10** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-10** House refused to concur; requested Senate to recede (Voice)
- **2018-03-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-10** House Message received
- **2018-03-10** Senate receded and passed (Roll No. 530)
- **2018-03-10** Communicated to House
- **2018-03-10** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-10** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/19/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-19** To Governor 3/19/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/19/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - House Journal
- **2018-03-22** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-04-16** Chapter 212, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/665b546f-5d24-4ff6-aae0-e96ec7304fb0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).