---
type: "Bill"
title: "Adding temporary work during the legislative session as exclusion to the term employment for purposes of unemployment compensation"
description: "Adding temporary work during the legislative session as exclusion to the term employment for purposes of unemployment compensation"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 3083"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3083 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 39
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-12"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a80c9d48-b83d-4d20-ada8-933ccce4e677"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3083&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "a4e6dde2c72ecd2687ee40aaf77be25b6223a190725930c4cf401e8e32bc1342"
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 3083 (2019) — Adding temporary work during the legislative session as exclusion to the term employment for purposes of unemployment compensation

## 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=hb3083%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=3083)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3083%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=3083)

## Votes

- Passage — **31–3** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **68–29** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **72–28** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hanshaw — primary (person)
- Miley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-02-12** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-12** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-18** Do pass
- **2019-02-19** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-20** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-21** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-21** Passed House (Roll No. 240) `passage`
- **2019-02-21** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-22** House Message received
- **2019-02-22** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-22** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-01** On 1st reading
- **2019-03-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-02** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-02** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-04** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-04** Passed Senate (Roll No. 334) `passage`
- **2019-03-04** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-05** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-05** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 440)
- **2019-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-05** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-06** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/11/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/11/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-11** To Governor 3/11/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/9/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/19/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-19** Approved by Governor 3/19/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 202, 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/a80c9d48-b83d-4d20-ada8-933ccce4e677`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).