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type: "Bill"
title: "Allowing replacement costs of employer provided property to be deducted from an employees final paycheck if the property is not returned"
description: "Allowing replacement costs of employer provided property to be deducted from an employees final paycheck if the property is not returned"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 2546"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2546 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Foster"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 38
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/db983306-02df-4fe5-ade0-167b0a916ccf"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2546&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "06872f83d9949e35898d886e446f368a7f650b375f35c4209168c9c249207b5d"
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 2546 (2018) — Allowing replacement costs of employer provided property to be deducted from an employees final paycheck if the property is not returned
## 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=HB2546%20SUB.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=2546)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2546%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=2546)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2546%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=2546)
## Votes
- Passage — **268** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **6135** (pass) · legislature
## Sponsors
- Foster — primary (person)
- Fast — cosponsor (person)
- Harshbarger — cosponsor (person)
- Higginbotham — cosponsor (person)
- Howell — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Walters — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Zatezalo — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-01-10** To Industry and Labor then Judiciary
- **2018-01-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** To House Industry and Labor `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-17** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-17** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-24** By substitute, do pass
- **2018-01-25** On 1st reading, House Calendar
- **2018-01-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-01-26** On 2nd reading, House Calendar
- **2018-01-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-01-29** On 3rd reading, House Calendar
- **2018-01-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-01-29** Passed House (Roll No. 27) `passage`
- **2018-01-29** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-01-30** House Message received
- **2018-01-30** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-01-30** To Workforce
- **2018-01-30** To Workforce
- **2018-02-08** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-09** On 1st reading
- **2018-02-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-12** On 2nd reading
- **2018-02-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-13** On 3rd reading
- **2018-02-13** Laid over on 3rd reading 2/13/18
- **2018-02-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-14** Passed Senate (Roll No. 119) `passage`
- **2018-02-14** Communicated to House
- **2018-02-14** Completed legislative action
- **2018-02-15** House received Senate message
- **2018-02-19** To Governor 2/19/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-02-20** To Governor 2/19/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-02-20** To Governor 2/19/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-02-23** Approved by Governor 2/23/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-02-26** Approved by Governor 2/23/18 - House Journal
- **2018-02-23** Approved by Governor 2/23/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-04-16** Chapter 134, Acts, Regular Session, 2018
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/db983306-02df-4fe5-ade0-167b0a916ccf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).