---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increasing salaries for members of WV State Police over three-year period"
description: "Increasing salaries for members of WV State Police over three-year period"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 544"
citation: "West Virginia SB 544 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public Safety", "Salaries"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hamilton"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 41
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2019-02-07"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8a01dee8-d166-4ae4-85d4-896ad7d6d75a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=544&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "d4f91a7792a8dd8977201f9a74362e6f4f39073df71cc6847ce02da5939f255e"
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 544 (2019) — Increasing salaries for members of WV State Police over three-year period

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee amendment adopted (Roll No. 573)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2019/RS/votes/house/00573.pdf)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB544%20enr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=544)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB544%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=544)

## Votes

- HFIN AM — **56–43** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- EFFECT JULY 1, 2019 — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hamilton — primary (person)
- Azinger — cosponsor (person)
- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
- Beach — cosponsor (person)
- Blair — cosponsor (person)
- Boley — cosponsor (person)
- Boso — cosponsor (person)
- Carmichael — cosponsor (person)
- Clements — cosponsor (person)
- Cline — cosponsor (person)
- Facemire — cosponsor (person)
- Hardesty — cosponsor (person)
- Ihlenfeld — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- Mann — cosponsor (person)
- Maroney — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Palumbo — cosponsor (person)
- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
- Prezioso — cosponsor (person)
- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- Romano — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
- Swope — cosponsor (person)
- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)
- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
- Trump — cosponsor (person)
- Unger — cosponsor (person)
- Weld — cosponsor (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-07** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-02-07** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-07** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-21** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-22** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-23** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-25** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-25** Passed Senate (Roll No. 224) `passage`
- **2019-02-25** Effective July 1, 2019 (Roll No. 224)
- **2019-02-25** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-26** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-26** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-26** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-06** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-06** Immediate consideration
- **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 (Roll No. 573)
- **2019-03-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-08** Passed House (Roll No. 612) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-08** Effective July 1, 2019 (Roll No. 613)
- **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. 488)
- **2019-03-09** Effective July 1, 2019 (Roll No. 488)
- **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 199, 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/8a01dee8-d166-4ae4-85d4-896ad7d6d75a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).