---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to method of payment to Municipal Pensions Security Fund"
description: "Relating to method of payment to Municipal Pensions Security Fund"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 617"
citation: "West Virginia SB 617 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Municipalities", "Retirement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Azinger"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 36
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-14"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c087fb50-410e-4ab6-9f9a-28a06ff0132d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=617&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "d7d4d845b6b2c51cd9ee85986eeacad0218fc93d9bc67ec60f8e22d9a8f4c377"
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 617 (2019) — Relating to method of payment to Municipal Pensions Security Fund

## 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=sb617%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=617)
2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb617%20org.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=617)
3. **SB617 SFAT _1 AZINGER 2-19 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/SB617 SFAT _1 AZINGER 2-19 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Azinger — primary (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Ihlenfeld — cosponsor (person)
- Plymale — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-14** Originating in Senate Pensions
- **2019-02-14** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-15** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-15** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-18** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-19** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-19** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 166) `passage`
- **2019-02-19** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-19** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-19** To Pensions and Retirement then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-19** To House Pensions and Retirement `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-27** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-02** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-05** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-06** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-06** Passed House (Roll No. 491) `passage`
- **2019-03-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-07** House Message received
- **2019-03-07** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 390)
- **2019-03-07** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-19** To Governor 3/19/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/19/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/19/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-22** Approved by Governor 3/22/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/22/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/22/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 63, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c087fb50-410e-4ab6-9f9a-28a06ff0132d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).