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type: "Bill"
title: "Increasing annual salaries of certain state employees"
description: "Increasing annual salaries of certain state employees"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 531"
citation: "West Virginia SB 531 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blair"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 43
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-02-01"
last_action: "2022-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/66f3cea4-0559-4444-8921-1f71df887a2d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=531&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "8313b17acf6bbf144f87251d6960209fc78b3bf2ec169a80e969deda734d0aea"
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 SB 531 (2022) — Increasing annual salaries of certain state employees
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Committee amendment adopted (Roll No. 377)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2022/RS/votes/house/00377.pdf)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB531%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=531)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB531%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=531)
4. **SB531 HFIN AM 3-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/SB531 HFIN AM 3-2 adopted.htm)
## Votes
- Passage — **330** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Blair — primary (person)
- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-02-01** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-02-01** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-01** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-11** On 1st reading
- **2022-02-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-14** On 2nd reading
- **2022-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-15** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2022-02-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-15** Baldwin amendment reported
- **2022-02-15** Amendment not germane
- **2022-02-15** Lindsay amendment rejected (Roll No. 130)
- **2022-02-15** Passed Senate (Roll No. 131) `passage`
- **2022-02-15** Effective July 1, 2022 (Roll No. 131)
- **2022-02-15** Ordered to House
- **2022-02-15** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-02-15** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-15** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-05** Committee amendment adopted (Roll No. 377)
- **2022-03-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-07** Passed House (Roll No. 388) `passage`
- **2022-03-07** Effective July 1, 2022 (Roll No. 389)
- **2022-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-10** House Message received
- **2022-03-10** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 422)
- **2022-03-10** Effective July 1, 2022 (Roll No. 422)
- **2022-03-10** Communicated to House
- **2022-03-10** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/15/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-15** To Governor 3/15/2022 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/15/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - Senate Journal
- **2022-04-20** Chapter 216, Acts, Regular Session, 2022
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/66f3cea4-0559-4444-8921-1f71df887a2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).