---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Police Officer Retirement System"
description: "Establishing the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Police Officer Retirement System"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4363"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4363 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Retirement"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Graves"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 46
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-01-15"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db46fe6c-c52a-4697-ba3d-774798777a18"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4363&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "f238a924ec5fafa7b2c193f9df6c0076a5c42600db79d5e95d01a37f12860cf0"
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 4363 (2020) — Establishing the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Police Officer Retirement System

## 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=HB4363%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4363)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4363%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4363)
3. **HB4363 S PEN AM _1 3-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4363 S PEN AM _1 3-2 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4363%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4363)

## Votes

- EFFECT JULY 1, 2020 — **98–0** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT JULY 1, 2020 — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Graves — primary (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Kessinger — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)
- Waxman — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-15** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-15** To Pensions and Retirement then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-15** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-15** To House Pensions and Retirement `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-12** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-12** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-18** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-02-19** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-20** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-21** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-21** Passed House (Roll No. 277) `passage`
- **2020-02-21** Effective July 1, 2020 (Roll No. 278)
- **2020-02-21** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-24** To Pensions then Finance
- **2020-02-24** To Pensions
- **2020-03-02** Reported do pass, with amendments, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-02** Immediate consideration
- **2020-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-02** On 2nd reading to Finance
- **2020-03-03** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-04** On 2nd reading
- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-04** Committee amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-05** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-05** Laid over on 3rd reading 3/5/20
- **2020-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-06** Passed Senate (Roll No. 495) `passage`
- **2020-03-06** Effective July 1, 2020 (Roll No. 495)
- **2020-03-06** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-07** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 711)
- **2020-03-07** Effective July 1, 2020 (Roll No. 712)
- **2020-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-19** To Governor 3/19/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 257, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/db46fe6c-c52a-4697-ba3d-774798777a18`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).