---
type: "Bill"
title: "Providing for the amortization of annual funding deficiencies for municipal police or firefighter pension and relief funds"
description: "Providing for the amortization of annual funding deficiencies for municipal police or firefighter pension and relief funds"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2829"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2829 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Retirement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Storch"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-03-02"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/644848d1-7355-4bbd-b6d7-92c7b051b98a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2829&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "3be6173a5082cb1c208f98d08382fb9b44f75f73978d674ff1b4ec35b096bc2f"
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 2829 (2021) — Providing for the amortization of annual funding deficiencies for municipal police or firefighter pension and relief funds

## 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=HB2829%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2829)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2829%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2829)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Storch — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Gearheart — cosponsor (person)
- Pack, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Pethtel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-02** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-03-02** To Pensions and Retirement then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-03-02** To House Pensions and Retirement `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2021-03-11** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-17** Do pass
- **2021-03-18** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-19** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-22** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-22** Passed House (Roll No. 241) `passage`
- **2021-03-22** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-23** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-23** To Pensions
- **2021-03-23** To Pensions
- **2021-04-01** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-02** On 1st reading
- **2021-04-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-04-05** On 2nd reading
- **2021-04-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-06** On 3rd reading
- **2021-04-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-06** Passed Senate (Roll No. 326) `passage`
- **2021-04-06** Communicated to House
- **2021-04-06** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-06** House received Senate message
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/14/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/14/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-14** To Governor 4/14/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/21/21 - House Journal
- **2021-04-21** Approved by Governor 4/21/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/21/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-05-20** Chapter 74, Acts, Regular Session, 2021

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/644848d1-7355-4bbd-b6d7-92c7b051b98a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).