---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to Public Employees Retirement System and State Teachers Retirement System"
description: "Relating to Public Employees Retirement System and State Teachers Retirement System"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 237"
citation: "West Virginia SB 237 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)", "Retirement", "State Personnel"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nelson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 40
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-16"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd63b2d0-012b-4fc7-99e0-c5186ea748ad"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=237&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "6729059ce912e28d9e3f2e0adcac802fdcedec7bb71b44082187a20805fb2123"
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 237 (2023) — Relating to Public Employees Retirement System and State Teachers Retirement System

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb237%20eng.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=237)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb237%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=237)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb237%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=237)
4. **sb237 s pen am _1 1-19 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/sb237 s pen am _1 1-19 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nelson — primary (person)
- Azinger — cosponsor (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Boley — cosponsor (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- Swope — cosponsor (person)
- Trump — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-16** To Pensions then Finance
- **2023-01-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-01-16** To Pensions
- **2023-01-20** Reported do pass, with amendments, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2023-01-20** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-09** On 1st reading
- **2023-02-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-10** On 2nd reading
- **2023-02-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-10** Committee amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-02-13** On 3rd reading
- **2023-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-13** Passed Senate (Roll No. 171) `passage`
- **2023-02-13** Effective July 1, 2023 (Roll No. 171)
- **2023-02-13** Ordered to House
- **2023-02-14** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-02-14** To Pensions and Retirement then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** To House Pensions and Retirement `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-21** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2023-02-21** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02** Do pass
- **2023-03-03** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-04** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-06** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-06** Passed House (Roll No. 502) `passage`
- **2023-03-06** Effective July 1, 2023 (Roll No. 503)
- **2023-03-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-06** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-07** House Message received
- **2023-03-09** To Governor 3/9/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-10** To Governor 3/9/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-13** Approved by Governor 3/13/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/13/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/13/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 240, 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/fd63b2d0-012b-4fc7-99e0-c5186ea748ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).