---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to WV Retirement Health Benefit Trust Fund within PEIA"
description: "Relating to WV Retirement Health Benefit Trust Fund within PEIA"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 339"
citation: "West Virginia SB 339 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Insurance", "Retirement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gaunch"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 43
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-23"
last_action: "2018-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d3688b6c-8dd4-4789-9422-eea5ea0db0ac"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=339&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "2d1a5f7e654e4fc533987df1c8a5b5b1e4e3a39504deade64615cc9073272b84"
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 339 (2018) — Relating to WV Retirement Health Benefit Trust Fund within PEIA

## 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=SB339%20enr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=339)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB339%20INTR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=339)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **88–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Gaunch — primary (person)
- Blair — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-23** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-01-23** To Pensions then Finance
- **2018-01-23** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-01-23** To Pensions
- **2018-02-08** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-08** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-14** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-14** On 1st reading
- **2018-02-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-15** On 2nd reading
- **2018-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-16** On 3rd reading
- **2018-02-16** Laid over on 3rd reading 2/16/18
- **2018-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-19** Passed Senate (Roll No. 147) `passage`
- **2018-02-19** Ordered to House
- **2018-02-20** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-02-20** To Pensions and Retirement then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-20** To House Pensions and Retirement `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-28** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-06** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-07** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-08** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2018-03-09** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-09** Passed House (Roll No. 449) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-10** House Message received
- **2018-03-10** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 473)
- **2018-03-10** Communicated to House
- **2018-03-10** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-10** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/21/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-21** To Governor 3/21/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/21/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-22** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - House Journal
- **2018-04-23** Chapter 98, 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/d3688b6c-8dd4-4789-9422-eea5ea0db0ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).