---
type: "Bill"
title: "Transfer of employees to classified exempt service"
description: "Transfer of employees to classified exempt service"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2013"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2013 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By", "State Personnel"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 42
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-03-17"
last_action: "2025-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9cc7ffd5-a1e1-4fe8-8412-dea5dd3879e5"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2013&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "eda36d8740cd50d2376396556150caf6aac9ac3da7a4c67025acc7465da7b91d"
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 2013 (2025) — Transfer of employees to classified exempt service

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2013%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2013)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2013%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2013)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2013%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2013)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2013%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2013)
5. **hb2013 sfat rucker _1 4-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2013%20sfat%20rucker%20_1%204-2%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **24–10** (pass) · upper
- EFFECT Jul 01, 2025 — **76–21** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **70–27** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT Jul 01, 2025 — **76–22** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **69–30** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hanshaw — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-17** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-17** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-26** By substitute, do pass
- **2025-03-27** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-31** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-31** Passed House (Roll No. 260) `passage`
- **2025-03-31** Effective July 1, 2025 (Roll No. 261)
- **2025-03-31** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-04-01** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-04** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-07** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-08** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2025-04-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 358) `passage`
- **2025-04-08** Title amendment adopted
- **2025-04-08** Effective July 1, 2025 (Roll No. 359)
- **2025-04-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2025-04-09** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-09** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 423)
- **2025-04-09** Effective July 1, 2025 (Roll No. 424)
- **2025-04-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-09** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-10** House Message received
- **2025-04-14** To Governor 4/14/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-14** To Governor 4/12/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/14/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-25** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-30** Chapter 111, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9cc7ffd5-a1e1-4fe8-8412-dea5dd3879e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).