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type: "Bill"
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title: "Allowing municipal fire marshals to receive service weapon upon retirement"
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description: "Allowing municipal fire marshals to receive service weapon upon retirement"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
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legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
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session: "2023"
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identifier: "SB 131"
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citation: "West Virginia SB 131 (2023)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Municipalities"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Nelson"]
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version_count: 2
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action_count: 36
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2023-01-11"
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last_action: "2023-05-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9bc903a9-77d9-4e32-81a3-29464eb9f87e"
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source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=131&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
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source_hash: "650b221d09b85425a9f35cbd1dd01069ba4b1cdcb0278c1ea747173ed249db90"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
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---
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# West Virginia SB 131 (2023) — Allowing municipal fire marshals to receive service weapon upon retirement
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb131%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=131)
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2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb131%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=131)
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## Votes
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- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Nelson — primary (person)
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- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
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- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
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- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
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- Maroney — cosponsor (person)
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- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
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- Queen — cosponsor (person)
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- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
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- Smith — cosponsor (person)
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- Stuart — cosponsor (person)
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- Trump — cosponsor (person)
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- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-01-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
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- **2023-01-11** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
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- **2023-01-11** Immediate consideration
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- **2023-01-11** Committee reference dispensed
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- **2023-01-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
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- **2023-01-11** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 11)
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- **2023-01-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2023-01-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2023-01-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 12) `passage`
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- **2023-01-11** Effective from passage (Roll No. 12)
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- **2023-01-11** Ordered to House
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- **2023-01-16** Introduced in House `introduction`
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- **2023-01-16** To Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services then Judiciary
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- **2023-01-16** To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services `referral-committee`
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- **2023-02-22** Do pass
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- **2023-02-22** 2nd reference dispensed
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- **2023-02-23** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
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- **2023-02-23** Placed on House Calendar
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- **2023-03-02** On 1st reading, House Calendar
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- **2023-03-02** From Housel Calendar, 1st reading, placed on Special Calendar
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- **2023-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
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- **2023-03-03** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
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- **2023-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2023-03-04** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
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- **2023-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2023-03-04** Passed House (Roll No. 486) `passage`
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- **2023-03-04** Communicated to Senate
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- **2023-03-04** Completed legislative action
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- **2023-03-06** House Message received
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- **2023-03-06** Effective ninety days from passage
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- **2023-03-08** To Governor 3/8/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
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- **2023-03-08** To Governor 3/8/2023 `executive-receipt`
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- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/23 `executive-signature`
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- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/23 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
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- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
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- **2023-05-01** Chapter 80, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9bc903a9-77d9-4e32-81a3-29464eb9f87e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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