---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to increasing the multiplier for use in determining accrued benefit in the West Virginia Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System"
description: "Relating to increasing the multiplier for use in determining accrued benefit in the West Virginia Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "20222S"
identifier: "HB 216"
citation: "West Virginia HB 216 (20222S)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 29
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-04-25"
last_action: "2022-05-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9082a0f9-99f9-4482-9154-45f0781ae34b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=216&year=2022&sessiontype=2X&btype=bill"
source_hash: "098ca90504f706bb1d41f342b344794388aefb994fcb57a80d52d1c149c0f4a9"
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 216 (20222S) — Relating to increasing the multiplier for use in determining accrued benefit in the West Virginia Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement System

## 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=HB216%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=2X&i=216)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB216%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=2X&i=216)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hanshaw — primary (person)
- Skaff — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-04-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-04-25** Reference dispensed
- **2022-04-25** Immediate consideration
- **2022-04-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-04-25** Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 715)
- **2022-04-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-04-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-04-25** Passed House (Roll No. 716) `passage`
- **2022-04-25** Effective January 1, 2023 (Roll No. 717)
- **2022-04-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-04-25** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-04-25** Immediate consideration
- **2022-04-25** Committee reference dispensed
- **2022-04-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-04-25** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 27)
- **2022-04-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-04-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-04-25** Passed Senate (Roll No. 28) `passage`
- **2022-04-25** Effective January 1, 2023 (Roll No. 28)
- **2022-04-25** Communicated to House
- **2022-04-25** Completed legislative action
- **2022-04-26** House received Senate message
- **2022-04-26** To Governor 4/27/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-04-26** To Governor 4/27/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-04-27** To Governor 4/27/22 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-04-26** Approved by Governor 5/3/22 - House Journal
- **2022-05-03** Approved by Governor 5/3/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-26** Approved by Governor 5/3/2022 - Senate Journal
- **2022-05-06** Chapter 12, Acts, 2nd Extraordinary Session, 2022

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9082a0f9-99f9-4482-9154-45f0781ae34b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).