SB 708 West Virginia Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Providing state mine inspectors with raise

SB 708 provides a $4,000 automatic salary increase to all state mine inspectors covered under West Virginia law, including electrical, underground, and surface mine inspectors. The bill directly affects these inspectors by raising their base pay on the effective date of the law. Key provisions require the state to implement this increase without additional legislative action. The change applies to all inspectors specified in the chapter governing miners' health, safety, and training.
Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Mar 2025
Committee Review
Mar 2025
Senate Passage
Mar 2025
House of Delegates Passage
Governor
Introduced Mar 5, 2025 Last action Mar 31, 2025
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What changed between versions

Introduced Version Committee Substitute · 2 edits
MINOR
The bill text was reformatted from a plain legislative document to a web page layout, while the substantive policy content remained largely the same. The only minor substantive change is that the salary increase language was slightly reworded from 'enjoy a $4,000 raise to their current salary' to 'receive a $4,000 salary increase on the effective date of this section', clarifying when the increase takes effect.
TECHNICAL

The bill text was converted from a plain document format to a web page layout with navigation menus, headers, and footer links.

TIMELINE

The salary increase language was slightly reworded to explicitly state it will occur 'on the effective date of this section' rather than simply being effective 'upon passage'.

Floor votes · Senate Mar 28, 2025

How they voted

310
Passed · 2 other
Total votes 33
Mar 28, 2025
D Democratic2
2 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican31
29 Yea 2
93% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
20
Key actions
3
Committee
5
Mar 31, 2025
Committee
To House Finance
lower
Mar 31, 2025
Committee
To Finance
lower
Mar 31, 2025
Introduced
Introduced in House
lower
Mar 28, 2025
Upper · Passed
Passed Senate (Roll No. 211)
upper
Mar 26, 2025
Upper · Passed
Reported do pass
upper
Mar 18, 2025
Committee
To Finance
upper
Mar 18, 2025
Upper · Passed
Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
upper
Mar 5, 2025
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
upper
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

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