republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2023/sb-131.md

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Bill	Allowing municipal fire marshals to receive service weapon upon retirement	Allowing municipal fire marshals to receive service weapon upon retirement	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2023	SB 131	West Virginia SB 131 (2023)	bill	Municipalities	enacted	Nelson	2	36	1	2023-01-11	2023-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/9bc903a9-77d9-4e32-81a3-29464eb9f87e	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=131&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	650b221d09b85425a9f35cbd1dd01069ba4b1cdcb0278c1ea747173ed249db90	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 131 (2023) — Allowing municipal fire marshals to receive service weapon upon retirement

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Nelson — primary (person)
• Deeds — cosponsor (person)
• Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
• Maroney — cosponsor (person)
• Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• Queen — cosponsor (person)
• Rucker — cosponsor (person)
• Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Stuart — cosponsor (person)
• Trump — cosponsor (person)
• Woodrum — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-11 Filed for introduction filing
• 2023-01-11 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2023-01-11 Immediate consideration
• 2023-01-11 Committee reference dispensed
• 2023-01-11 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2023-01-11 Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 11)
• 2023-01-11 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-01-11 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-01-11 Passed Senate (Roll No. 12) passage
• 2023-01-11 Effective from passage (Roll No. 12)
• 2023-01-11 Ordered to House
• 2023-01-16 Introduced in House introduction
• 2023-01-16 To Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services then Judiciary
• 2023-01-16 To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services referral-committee
• 2023-02-22 Do pass
• 2023-02-22 2nd reference dispensed
• 2023-02-23 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2023-02-23 Placed on House Calendar
• 2023-03-02 On 1st reading, House Calendar
• 2023-03-02 From Housel Calendar, 1st reading, placed on Special Calendar
• 2023-03-02 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2023-03-03 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2023-03-03 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-03-04 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2023-03-04 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-03-04 Passed House (Roll No. 486) passage
• 2023-03-04 Communicated to Senate
• 2023-03-04 Completed legislative action
• 2023-03-06 House Message received
• 2023-03-06 Effective ninety days from passage
• 2023-03-08 To Governor 3/8/2023 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2023-03-08 To Governor 3/8/2023 executive-receipt
• 2023-03-29 Approved by Governor 3/29/23 executive-signature
• 2023-03-11 Approved by Governor 3/29/23 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2023-03-11 Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2023-05-01 Chapter 80, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9bc903a9-77d9-4e32-81a3-29464eb9f87e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).