---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allowing adjustment of gross income for calculating personal income liability for certain retirees"
description: "Allowing adjustment of gross income for calculating personal income liability for certain retirees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 36"
citation: "West Virginia SB 36 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Taxation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Weld"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 43
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4710ff3e-4e47-42f2-b01f-d1ec6264f536"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=36&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ca951037c6bf1bd511ca272fd7e70e7fb5167d13133aae66f92410ca8a4ef803"
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 36 (2019) — Allowing adjustment of gross income for calculating personal income liability for certain retirees

## 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=SB36%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=36)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB36%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=36)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT JULY 1, 2019 — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Weld — primary (person)
- Boso — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-09** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-09** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-09** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-09** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-11** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-01-14** On 1st reading
- **2019-01-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-15** On 2nd reading
- **2019-01-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-16** On 3rd reading
- **2019-01-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-01-16** Passed Senate (Roll No. 5) `passage`
- **2019-01-16** Effective July 1, 2019 (Roll No. 5)
- **2019-01-16** Ordered to House
- **2019-01-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-17** To Pensions and Retirement then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-17** To House Pensions and Retirement `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-05** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** House further considered bill
- **2019-03-05** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2019-03-06** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-08** Passed House (Roll No. 580) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** Effective July 1, 2019 (Roll No. 581)
- **2019-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 518)
- **2019-03-09** Effective July 1, 2019 (Roll No. 518)
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-22** To Governor 3/22/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/22/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/22/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-22** Approved by Governor 3/22/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/22/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/22/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 240, 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/4710ff3e-4e47-42f2-b01f-d1ec6264f536`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).