---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clarifying Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System surviving spouse benefits"
description: "Clarifying Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System surviving spouse benefits"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 607"
citation: "West Virginia SB 607 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Retirement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nelson"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-31"
last_action: "2024-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/58c9a7de-ce32-49ec-82ad-d51a32c6dc9f"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=607&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "499d931ef5d2a6add92a5d87105e4de9ccdc9e5722a9a835b139b2748f2b017d"
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 607 (2024) — Clarifying Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System surviving spouse benefits

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb607%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=607)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb607%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=607)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Nelson — primary (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-31** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-31** To Pensions then Finance
- **2024-01-31** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-01-31** To Pensions
- **2024-02-08** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-08** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2024-02-09** On 1st reading
- **2024-02-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-12** On 2nd reading
- **2024-02-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-13** On 3rd reading
- **2024-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-13** Passed Senate (Roll No. 126) `passage`
- **2024-02-13** Ordered to House
- **2024-02-14** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-02-14** Immediate consideration
- **2024-02-14** Reference dispensed
- **2024-02-15** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-15** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-16** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-16** Passed House (Roll No. 200) `passage`
- **2024-02-16** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-16** Completed legislative action
- **2024-02-19** House Message received
- **2024-02-22** To Governor 2/22/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-23** To Governor 2/22/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-02-28** Approved by Governor 2/28/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-02-29** Approved by Governor 2/28/2024 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-23** Chapter 68, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/58c9a7de-ce32-49ec-82ad-d51a32c6dc9f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).