---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to contributions on behalf of employees to a retirement plan administered by the Consolidated Public Retirement Board"
description: "Relating to contributions on behalf of employees to a retirement plan administered by the Consolidated Public Retirement Board"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2739"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2739 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hollen"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 38
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-30"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d9a9fe7-68a7-4577-89d5-c944477bc51a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2739&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "32d25bb9c5ade5a96279d088b1f3306397f5237d757d88e40f2226ac1b56627f"
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 2739 (2019) — Relating to contributions on behalf of employees to a retirement plan administered by the Consolidated Public Retirement Board

## 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=hb2739%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2739)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2739%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2739)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hollen — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Graves — cosponsor (person)
- Malcolm — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-30** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-30** To Pensions and Retirement then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-30** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-30** To House Pensions and Retirement `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2019-02-06** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-11** Do pass
- **2019-02-12** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-12** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-13** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-14** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-14** Passed House (Roll No. 176) `passage`
- **2019-02-14** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-15** House Message received
- **2019-02-15** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-15** To Government Organization then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-15** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-05** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2019-03-06** On 1st reading
- **2019-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-08** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 442) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/21/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/21/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-21** To Governor 3/21/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 75, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9d9a9fe7-68a7-4577-89d5-c944477bc51a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).