---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring employers to send certain notifications when retirants are hired as temporary, part-time employees"
description: "Requiring employers to send certain notifications when retirants are hired as temporary, part-time employees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 3191"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3191 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Retirement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Boggs"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 38
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-03-16"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7b6437e8-d889-46e4-931d-5a6e584eaf5c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3191&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "af332969c6d16a3e29a459d8c055dbe901b05db118b24c8fb34f22f3e3e230e0"
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 3191 (2021) — Requiring employers to send certain notifications when retirants are hired as temporary, part-time employees

## 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=HB3191%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=3191)
2. **HB3191 S PEN AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB3191 S PEN AM _1 adopted.htm)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3191%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=3191)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Boggs — primary (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)
- Householder — cosponsor (person)
- Pethtel — cosponsor (person)
- Storch — cosponsor (person)
- Westfall — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-03-16** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-16** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-03-16** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-22** Do pass
- **2021-03-23** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-25** Passed House (Roll No. 280) `passage`
- **2021-03-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-26** To Pensions
- **2021-03-26** To Pensions
- **2021-04-01** Reported do pass, with amendment `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`
- **2021-04-05** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-04-06** On 3rd reading
- **2021-04-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-06** Passed Senate (Roll No. 329) `passage`
- **2021-04-06** Senate requests House to concur
- **2021-04-07** House received Senate message
- **2021-04-07** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 491)
- **2021-04-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-04-07** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-08** House Message received
- **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 212, 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/7b6437e8-d889-46e4-931d-5a6e584eaf5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).