republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2021/sb-459.md

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Bill	Relating to return of member's paid contributions to heirs after member's death under certain circumstances	Relating to return of member's paid contributions to heirs after member's death under certain circumstances	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2021	SB 459	West Virginia SB 459 (2021)	bill	Retirement	enacted	Nelson	2	30	1	2021-02-25	2021-05-24	openstates	ocd-bill/51f6ef6a-b8b4-46cc-85de-dc6b15fd0acb	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=459&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	77fc13f32d362b751252bd3bbb62134fd1ca085190ba1ce2a00740cd97bf87a1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 459 (2021) — Relating to return of member's paid contributions to heirs after member's death under certain circumstances

Version chain

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

1. Enrolled Version (committee substitute) — source
2. Originating in Committee (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 0–0 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Nelson — primary (person)
• Azinger — cosponsor (person)
• Clements — cosponsor (person)
• Karnes — cosponsor (person)
• Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
• Plymale — cosponsor (person)
• Trump — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-25 Originating in Senate Pensions
• 2021-02-25 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2021-02-26 On 1st reading
• 2021-02-26 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2021-02-26 Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 45)
• 2021-02-26 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2021-02-26 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-02-26 Passed Senate (Roll No. 46) passage
• 2021-02-26 Effective from passage (Roll No. 46)
• 2021-02-26 Ordered to House
• 2021-03-01 Introduced in House introduction
• 2021-03-01 To Finance referral-committee
• 2021-03-01 To House Finance referral-committee
• 2021-03-04 Do pass
• 2021-03-04 Immediate consideration
• 2021-03-04 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2021-03-04 Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 76)
• 2021-03-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2021-03-04 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2021-03-04 Passed House (Roll No. 77) passage
• 2021-03-04 Effective from passage (Roll No. 78)
• 2021-03-04 Communicated to Senate
• 2021-03-04 Completed legislative action
• 2021-03-05 House Message received
• 2021-03-10 To Governor 3/10/21 executive-receipt
• 2021-03-11 To Governor 3/10/21 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2021-03-17 Approved by Governor 3/16/21 - House Journal
• 2021-03-16 Approved by Governor 3/16/21 executive-signature
• 2021-03-17 Approved by Governor 3/16/21 - Senate Journal
• 2021-05-24 Chapter 69, Acts, Regular Session, 2021

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/51f6ef6a-b8b4-46cc-85de-dc6b15fd0acb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).