---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to funding of the Public Employees Health Insurance Program"
description: "Relating to funding of the Public Employees Health Insurance Program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 3139"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3139 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Criss"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 45
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8ad3a37a-eea9-4607-b310-06c3f981e3e7"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3139&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "459a3055018c6a36c1e80f8e316150112f8f9cc55c58cff4306c3a2145c71c4b"
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 3139 (2019) — Relating to funding of the Public Employees Health Insurance Program

## 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=HB3139%20ENG.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=3139)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3139%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=3139)
3. **HB3139 S FIN AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB3139 S FIN AM _1 adopted.htm)
4. **HB3139 SFAT _1 BLAIR 3-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/HB3139 SFAT _1 BLAIR 3-7 adopted.htm)
5. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3139%20ORG.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=3139)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- HFA BATES 2-25 — **42–56** (fail) · lower
- PASSAGE — **93–6** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **95–4** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Criss — primary (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Hartman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-22** Originating in House Finance
- **2019-02-22** Do pass
- **2019-02-22** Immediate consideration
- **2019-02-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-25** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-02-25** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 304) `amendment-failure`
- **2019-02-26** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-26** Passed House (Roll No. 344) `passage`
- **2019-02-26** Effective from passage (Roll No. 345)
- **2019-02-26** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-27** House Message received
- **2019-02-27** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-27** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-07** Immediate consideration
- **2019-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-08** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-09** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-09** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 508) `passage`
- **2019-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 508)
- **2019-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-09** House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 740)
- **2019-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 741)
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 557)
- **2019-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 557)
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-25** To Governor 3/25/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 205, 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/8ad3a37a-eea9-4607-b310-06c3f981e3e7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).