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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Conducting study for an appropriate memorial for West Virginians killed in the War on Terror"
+description: "Conducting study for an appropriate memorial for West Virginians killed in the War on Terror"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 4589"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4589 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Boards and Commissions"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Pushkin"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-01-29"
+last_action: "2020-04-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5907b521-c03e-477e-ba3e-533d73d2fcb2"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4589&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "70d096f7a8f11f4f2697f6e529e39c814cc6f068fab79ca6b1968951ea2c25ff"
+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 4589 (2020) — Conducting study for an appropriate memorial for West Virginians killed in the War on Terror
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4589%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4589)
+2. **HB4589 S MIL AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4589 S MIL AM _1 adopted.htm)
+3. **HB4589 S MIL AMT _1 2-27 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4589 S MIL AMT _1 2-27 adopted.htm)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4589%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4589)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **100–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Pushkin — primary (person)
+- Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
+- Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Estep-Burton — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Kelly, D. — cosponsor (person)
+- Pyles — cosponsor (person)
+- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-29** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2020-01-29** To Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security then Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-29** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2020-01-29** To House Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-17** Do pass
+- **2020-02-17** 2nd reference dispensed
+- **2020-02-18** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-19** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-20** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-20** Passed House (Roll No. 255) `passage`
+- **2020-02-20** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-02-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-02-21** To Military
+- **2020-02-21** To Military
+- **2020-03-02** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2020-03-02** Immediate consideration
+- **2020-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-03-03** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-03** Committee Amendment Reported
+- **2020-03-03** Deferred until foot of 2nd
+- **2020-03-03** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-03-04** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-04** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 435) `passage`
+- **2020-03-04** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2020-03-06** House received Senate message
+- **2020-03-06** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 629)
+- **2020-03-06** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-03-06** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-03-07** House Message received
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-19** To Governor 3/19/20 `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - House Journal
+- **2020-03-24** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - Senate Journal
+- **2020-04-15** Chapter 351, Acts, Regular Session, 2020
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5907b521-c03e-477e-ba3e-533d73d2fcb2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+