---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to definitions of base salary and overtime for police and firemen pensions"
description: "Relating to definitions of base salary and overtime for police and firemen pensions"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4430"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4430 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Retirement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Storch"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 37
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-31"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/abce3cc7-f663-43ca-ba07-1e88a7ce823d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4430&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "06d756b1808253e78dd21435256c6da665ae1c6a873414c274d3edfb75bf7b5d"
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 4430 (2022) — Relating to definitions of base salary and overtime for police and firemen pensions

## 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=HB4430%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4430)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4430%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4430)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4430%20intr.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4430)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Storch — primary (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Gearheart — cosponsor (person)
- Pethtel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-31** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-01-31** To Pensions and Retirement then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-31** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-01-31** To House Pensions and Retirement `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-08** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2022-02-08** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-15** By substitute, do pass
- **2022-02-16** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-16** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-17** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-18** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-18** Passed House (Roll No. 173) `passage`
- **2022-02-18** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-21** To Pensions then Finance
- **2022-02-21** To Pensions
- **2022-03-03** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-03** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2022-03-04** On 1st reading
- **2022-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2022-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-08** On 3rd reading
- **2022-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 376) `passage`
- **2022-03-08** Communicated to House
- **2022-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-17** To Governor 3/17/22 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - Senate Journal
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 69, Acts, Regular Session, 2022

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/abce3cc7-f663-43ca-ba07-1e88a7ce823d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).