---
type: "Bill"
title: "Deny severance pay to employees of DOT for failure or refusal of drug testing"
description: "Deny severance pay to employees of DOT for failure or refusal of drug testing"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 3114"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3114 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Roads and Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Street"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 40
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-27"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3c34edd7-dab3-4284-ad87-825da199d45a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3114&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "409b01bb0b48a0ba00a65b07e037d2f669249108582e1fd2346bb8af048ed6a5"
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 3114 (2023) — Deny severance pay to employees of DOT for failure or refusal of drug testing

## 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=hb3114%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3114)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3114%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3114)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3114%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3114)
4. **hb3114 s gov am _1 2-27 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/hb3114 s gov am _1 2-27 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Street — primary (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Burkhammer — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
- Gearheart — cosponsor (person)
- Hillenbrand — cosponsor (person)
- Kirby — cosponsor (person)
- Mazzocchi — cosponsor (person)
- Petitto — cosponsor (person)
- Willis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-27** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-27** To Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse then Judiciary
- **2023-01-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-27** To House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2023-02-16** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-22** By substitute, do pass
- **2023-02-23** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-25** Passed House (Roll No. 267) `passage`
- **2023-02-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-02-27** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-27** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-27** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-02** Immediate consideration
- **2023-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-03** On 2nd reading
- **2023-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-03** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-06** On 3rd reading
- **2023-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-06** Passed Senate (Roll No. 384) `passage`
- **2023-03-06** Senate requests House to concur
- **2023-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-07** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 533)
- **2023-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-08** House Message received
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/20/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-20** To Governor 3/20/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/20/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 249, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3c34edd7-dab3-4284-ad87-825da199d45a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).