| WV | HB5088 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to increase the West Virginia Natural Resources Police Officer Retirement System accrued benefit for members who retire after July 1, 2026, and to provide funding for the benefit,
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 |
| WV | SB28 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide for a phased in increase in the homestead exemption; provide that change to exemption contingent on passage of constitutional amendment; and repeal limitation on levy rates when appraisal results in tax increase...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal |
| WV | SB719 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify unused leave accruals eligible for campus police officers to use for additional service credit upon retirement and technical clean up.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Approved by Governor 3/27/2026 - Senate Journal |
| WV | SB717 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to modify disability and retirement benefits and procedures for municipal police and firefighters participating in municipal plans overseen by the Municipal Pensions Oversight Board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal |
| WV | SB724 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirement that home confinement officers be certified as law enforcement officers in order to participate in the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Approved by Governor 3/27/2026 - Senate Journal |
| WV | SB977 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow for partial disability benefits under the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Approved by Governor 3/27/2026 - Senate Journal |
| WV | SB997 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow certain vested staff members participating in the Public Employees Retirement System employed by Hopemont Hospital, Jackie Withrow Hospital, John Manchin Sr. Health Care Center, and Lakin State Hospital to begin d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-14
Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal |
| WV | SB1074 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit newly hired emergency vehicle operators to participate in the Emergency Medical Services Officer Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-05
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB1035 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to amend the retirement system by suspending contribution of courts into judicial retirement system until certain condition met; providing that retirees under the post-2005 retirement system are to be treated as pre-2005 r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-03
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB141 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify the West Virginia Natural Resources Police Officer Retirement System accrued benefit for members and provide funding for said benefit.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-02
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB676 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include members of the Division of Protection Services (Capitol Police) under the state police B retirement system
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-27
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB978 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow municipalities with police officers or firefighters currently participating in the Emergency Medical Services Retirement Plan to elect to become members of the Municipal Police Officers and Firefighters Retirement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-27
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB206 | Engross
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize sheriffs who are members of the public retirement system to retire upon attaining the age of 62 with eight or more years of service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-20
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB1013 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allowing municipal police and firefighters participating in municipal plans overseen by the Municipal Pensions Oversight Board to use accrued leave toward credited service upon retirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-19
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| WV | SB149 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow certain contracted counsel for executive agencies to purchase years of service in the Public Employees Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5654 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt retirement benefits received by Natural Resources Police Officers from West Virginia personal income tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-17
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5578 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to take 50 cents from every vehicle registration sold, or renewed, or both, in West Virginia and use that money to fund the Deputy Sheriff's Retirement Fund.This section is new; therefore,
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5560 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt PERS pensions for local law enforcement officers from state income taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-16
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5508 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include members of the Division of Protection Services (Capitol Police) under the state police B retirement system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5524 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize certain EMS personnel to be members of the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB934 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the West Virginia Natural Resources Police Officer Retirement System accrued benefit for members who retire after July 1, 2026, and to provide funding for the benefit,
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-12
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| WV | SB930 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to raise the cost-of-living increase from the first $15,000 to the first $45,000 for supplemental pension benefits for municipal police, firefighters, employees of waterworks systems, sewage systems, or combined waterworks...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-12
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| WV | HB5467 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the multiplier for the deputy sheriff retirement accrued benefit from two and a half percent to three percent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-12
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5391 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the EMS Retirement Equity, Tax Relief, and Workforce Support Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-10
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5326 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to raise the cost-of-living increase from the first $15,000 to the first $30,000 for supplemental pension benefits for certain municipal employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5360 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a cost-of-living increase, based on the annual increase in the consumer price index, for persons under the Public Employees Retirement Act and Teachers Retirement System who are at least 60 years of age and that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB885 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow Tier II members of the Teachers Retirement System to apply accrued annual and sick leave, on the basis of one day's retirement service credit for each two days of accrued annual and sick leave, toward an increase ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB782 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide pay increases to members of the judiciary and to make modifications to the judicial retirement system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| WV | HB5230 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the awards and benefits to dependents of State Police officers who must take disability retirement to better match the awards and benefits of the dependents of State Police retirants who serve 20 years without di...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5175 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to clarify unused leave accruals eligible for campus police officers to use for additional service credit upon retirement and technical clean up.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-04
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5150 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a Secure Choice trust as an instrumentality of the state to hold employee payroll deductions, contributions, and earnings on the contributions and to establish a Secure Choice administrative fund in the state tre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-03
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5051 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow accrued annual or sick leave to be used for retirement service credit in the Teachers Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-02
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5052 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a one-time cost-of-living supplement to retirement benefits of under $75,000 a year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-02
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5046 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify the lowering of the age of retirants from the West Virginia State Police Retirement System that are eligible to receive an annual annuity adjustment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-02
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5056 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit a beneficiary under the State Teachers Retirement System who has been approved for a retirement with a joint life annuity to convert to the maximum life annuity if the spouse dies within the first five years of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-02
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB11 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to combat absenteeism among educators by providing a cash bonus in exchange for unused days of personal leave.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-30
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4936 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the number of days a retired teacher may accept employment may extend beyond 140 days under specific conditions; and to prohibit reduction of benefits or requiring additional contributions for retirement be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-29
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4969 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a gradual increase in state retirement benefits through July 1, 2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-29
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4889 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a graduated increase in retirement benefits to state employees and teachers over a three-year period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-28
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4887 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to authorize sheriffs who are members of the public retirement system to retire upon attaining the age of sixty-two with eight or more years of service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-28
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4804 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase certain fees collected by county sheriffs and add these increased amounts to the Deputy Sheriff Retirement Fund to provide modest increases in benefits for retired deputies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4803 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide an annual annuity adjustment of 1% for eligible deputy sheriff retirants and surviving spouses when the plan has reached a funded level of 105 percent. The bill permits the board to set the employer contribution...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4562 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the eligibility age for certain retirement benefits within the Public Employees Retirement System and the State Teachers Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-20
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4514 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to compute the final average salary of a member of the West Virginia Deputy Sheriff Retirement Fund based on the average of the highest annual compensation received for covered employment by the member in any three plan ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-19
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4506 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow members of the West Virginia State Police Retirement System to use accrued leave to acquire additional credited service toward retirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-19
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4154 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide a cost-of-living adjustment for retired public employees and school personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-14
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4155 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to include West Virginia correctional classifications in the Natural Resources Officer Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-14
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4086 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow Tier II members of the Teachers Retirement System to apply accrued annual and sick leave, on the basis of one day's retirement service credit for each one day of accrued annual and sick leave, toward an increase i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-14
To House Education Committee |
| WV | SB132 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase the retirement benefit multiplier of the Deputy Sheriff Retirement System Act from two and one-half percent to three percent of the member's final average salary multiplied by the member's years of credited ser...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-14
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| WV | SB75 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that all first responders, including those retiring to West Virginia, be exempt, from taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-14
To Senate Finance Committee |
