republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2021/sb-421.md

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Bill	Authorizing Workforce West Virginia to hire at-will employees	Authorizing Workforce West Virginia to hire at-will employees	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2021	SB 421	West Virginia SB 421 (2021)	bill	Labor	enacted	Tarr	3	33	1	2021-02-23	2021-05-24	openstates	ocd-bill/dc68adbd-38f6-4271-8c44-506f06a383c3	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=421&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	c355c1d557103a24a4b956db49e230ff91ef9ed545468acf3a314ed32ed300ca	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 421 (2021) — Authorizing Workforce West Virginia to hire at-will employees

Version chain

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

1. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 0–0 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Tarr — primary (person)
• Roberts — cosponsor (person)
• Woodrum — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-23 Filed for introduction filing
• 2021-02-23 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2021-02-23 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2021-02-23 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2021-03-03 Committee substitute reported
• 2021-03-04 On 1st reading
• 2021-03-04 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2021-03-05 On 2nd reading
• 2021-03-05 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2021-03-08 On 3rd reading
• 2021-03-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-03-08 Passed Senate (Roll No. 91) passage
• 2021-03-08 Ordered to House
• 2021-03-09 Introduced in House introduction
• 2021-03-09 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2021-03-09 To House Government Organization referral-committee
• 2021-03-30 Do pass
• 2021-03-31 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2021-03-31 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2021-04-01 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2021-04-01 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2021-04-02 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2021-04-02 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-04-02 Passed House (Roll No. 409) passage
• 2021-04-02 Communicated to Senate
• 2021-04-02 Completed legislative action
• 2021-04-05 House Message received
• 2021-04-07 To Governor 4/7/21 executive-receipt
• 2021-04-07 To Governor 4/7/21 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2021-04-15 Approved by Governor 4/15/21 executive-signature
• 2021-04-10 Approved by Governor 4/15/21 - Senate Journal
• 2021-04-10 Approved by Governor 4/15/21 - House Journal
• 2021-05-24 Chapter 135, Acts, Regular Session, 2021

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dc68adbd-38f6-4271-8c44-506f06a383c3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).