---
type: "Bill"
title: "Permitting campus police officers to participate in Deputy Sheriffs Retirement System"
description: "Permitting campus police officers to participate in Deputy Sheriffs Retirement System"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 35"
citation: "West Virginia SB 35 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Retirement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Oliverio"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 45
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-12"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1b50c2bd-defe-40d2-9a2e-f39f40385969"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=35&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "1b9cffb64dc1527e90bf0253f0857ea57447be95940e0d325cc1d14334c7f937"
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 35 (2025) — Permitting campus police officers to participate in Deputy Sheriffs Retirement System

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb35%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=35)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb35%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=35)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb35%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=35)
4. **sb35 h fin am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb35%20h%20fin%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)
5. **sb35 hfa criss 4-12 _2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb35%20hfa%20criss%204-12%20_2%20adopted.htm)
6. **sb35 hfat criss 4-12 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb35%20hfat%20criss%204-12%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **94–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Oliverio — primary (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-12** To Pensions then Finance
- **2025-02-12** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-12** To Pensions
- **2025-03-04** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
- **2025-03-04** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-24** Immediate consideration
- **2025-03-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-25** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-26** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-26** Passed Senate (Roll No. 176) `passage`
- **2025-03-26** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-26** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-26** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-26** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-09** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-11** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Passed House (Roll No. 498) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-12** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-12** House reconsidered and passed bill (Roll No. 627)
- **2025-04-12** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-12** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 604)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-21** To Governor 4/21/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-24** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 156, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1b50c2bd-defe-40d2-9a2e-f39f40385969`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).