---
type: "Bill"
title: "Permitting certain employees of educational service cooperatives participate in state's teacher retirement systems"
description: "Permitting certain employees of educational service cooperatives participate in state's teacher retirement systems"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 26"
citation: "West Virginia SB 26 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)", "Retirement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blair"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a9932c42-9d24-46c9-b311-11240ebb95e4"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=26&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "94929f4ab351add1469527ee9b163fde9b697c6c9a8e25f2aa2a93d273a0f6af"
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 26 (2019) — Permitting certain employees of educational service cooperatives participate in state's teacher retirement systems

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB26%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=26)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB26%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=26)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB26%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=26)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Blair — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-09** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-09** To Pensions
- **2019-01-09** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-09** To Pensions
- **2019-02-07** Committee substitute reported
- **2019-02-08** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-11** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-12** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-12** Passed Senate (Roll No. 114) `passage`
- **2019-02-12** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-13** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-13** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Do pass
- **2019-02-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-22** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-25** Passed House (Roll No. 278) `passage`
- **2019-02-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-25** Completed legislative action
- **2019-02-26** House Message received
- **2019-03-01** To Governor 3/1/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-01** To Governor 3/1/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/7/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-08** Approved by Governor 3/7/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 89, 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/a9932c42-9d24-46c9-b311-11240ebb95e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).