---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to providing salary adjustments to employees of the Department of Health and Human Resources"
description: "Relating to providing salary adjustments to employees of the Department of Health and Human Resources"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 3131"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3131 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 38
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-02-13"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9c2eed6f-299f-406c-b650-94e75b61d0aa"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3131&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "8e4d8c8712d2b95e930165edb27023cc76fdd2dbf9919728304238b5132d27b9"
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 3131 (2019) — Relating to providing salary adjustments to employees of the Department of Health and Human Resources

## 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=HB3131%20SUB.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=3131)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3131%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=3131)
3. **HB3131 S H_HR AM _1 3-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB3131 S H_HR AM _1 3-6 adopted.htm)
4. **HB3131 SFAT _1 MARONEY 3-8 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/HB3131 SFAT _1 MARONEY 3-8 adopted.htm)
5. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3131%20ORG.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=3131)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **87–12** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **79–17** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ellington — primary (person)
- Atkinson — cosponsor (person)
- Hill — cosponsor (person)
- Hollen — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-13** Originating in House Health and Human Resources
- **2019-02-13** Do pass, but first to Government Organization
- **2019-02-13** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22** By substitute, do pass
- **2019-02-22** Immediate consideration
- **2019-02-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-26** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-26** Passed House (Roll No. 343) `passage`
- **2019-02-26** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-27** House Message received
- **2019-02-27** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-27** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-07** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-07** Immediate consideration
- **2019-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-08** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-09** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-09** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 503) `passage`
- **2019-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-09** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 716)
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-25** To Governor 3/25/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 204, 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/9c2eed6f-299f-406c-b650-94e75b61d0aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).