---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allowing municipal fire marshals to receive service weapon upon retirement"
description: "Allowing municipal fire marshals to receive service weapon upon retirement"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 131"
citation: "West Virginia SB 131 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Municipalities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nelson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-11"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9bc903a9-77d9-4e32-81a3-29464eb9f87e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=131&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "650b221d09b85425a9f35cbd1dd01069ba4b1cdcb0278c1ea747173ed249db90"
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 131 (2023) — Allowing municipal fire marshals to receive service weapon upon retirement

## 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=sb131%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=131)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb131%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=131)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nelson — primary (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Maroney — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Stuart — cosponsor (person)
- Trump — cosponsor (person)
- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-11** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-01-11** Immediate consideration
- **2023-01-11** Committee reference dispensed
- **2023-01-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-11** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 11)
- **2023-01-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-01-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-01-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 12) `passage`
- **2023-01-11** Effective from passage (Roll No. 12)
- **2023-01-11** Ordered to House
- **2023-01-16** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-16** To Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services then Judiciary
- **2023-01-16** To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-22** Do pass
- **2023-02-22** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2023-02-23** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-23** Placed on House Calendar
- **2023-03-02** On 1st reading, House Calendar
- **2023-03-02** From Housel Calendar, 1st reading, placed on Special Calendar
- **2023-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-03** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-04** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-04** Passed House (Roll No. 486) `passage`
- **2023-03-04** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-04** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-06** House Message received
- **2023-03-06** Effective ninety days from passage
- **2023-03-08** To Governor 3/8/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-08** To Governor 3/8/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/23 `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/23 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 80, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9bc903a9-77d9-4e32-81a3-29464eb9f87e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).