---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the West Virginia Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System"
description: "Relating to the West Virginia Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2854"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2854 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Retirement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Storch"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 35
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-03-02"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad732224-61ed-4af3-a5b2-8f1a57fc8c33"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2854&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "034509d090b8ea77b13095c2d1dbbb3f8565df3c745fbfc18e9090b6160f6bfc"
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 2854 (2021) — Relating to the West Virginia Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System

## 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=HB2854%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2854)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2854%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2854)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Storch — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Gearheart — cosponsor (person)
- Graves — cosponsor (person)
- Pack, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Pethtel — cosponsor (person)
- Riley — 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`
- **2021-03-04** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2021-03-04** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-15** Do pass
- **2021-03-16** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-16** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-17** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-18** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-18** Passed House (Roll No. 191) `passage`
- **2021-03-18** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-19** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-19** Immediate consideration
- **2021-03-19** Committee reference dispensed
- **2021-03-22** On 1st reading
- **2021-03-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-23** On 2nd reading
- **2021-03-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-24** On 3rd reading
- **2021-03-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-24** Passed Senate (Roll No. 187) `passage`
- **2021-03-24** Communicated to House
- **2021-03-24** Completed legislative action
- **2021-03-25** House received Senate message
- **2021-03-31** To Governor 3/30/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-31** To Governor 3/30/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-30** To Governor 3/30/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-05** Approved by Governor 4/5/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-04-05** Approved by Governor 4/5/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-06** Approved by Governor 4/5/21 - House Journal
- **2021-05-20** Chapter 76, 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/ad732224-61ed-4af3-a5b2-8f1a57fc8c33`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).