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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Supplemental appropriation expiring funds in State Excess Lottery Revenue to Department of Veterans' Assistance"
+description: "Supplemental appropriation expiring funds in State Excess Lottery Revenue to Department of Veterans' Assistance"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 779"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 779 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Blair"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-02-13"
+last_action: "2020-04-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7a8763aa-d382-47d3-9ff6-7ab7f03fc16f"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=779&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "d4c9bd8c1c3979b6f0b1dba857326f716507266713e0645b56c562a16c2411a6"
+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 SB 779 (2020) — Supplemental appropriation expiring funds in State Excess Lottery Revenue to Department of Veterans' Assistance
+
+## 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=SB779%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=779)
+2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB779%20ORG.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=779)
+
+## Votes
+
+- SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION — **95–3** (pass) · lower
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **97–1** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Blair — primary (person)
+- Boley — cosponsor (person)
+- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
+- Ihlenfeld — cosponsor (person)
+- Mann — cosponsor (person)
+- Maroney — cosponsor (person)
+- Palumbo — cosponsor (person)
+- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
+- Prezioso — cosponsor (person)
+- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
+- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
+- Swope — cosponsor (person)
+- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-02-13** Originating in Senate Finance
+- **2020-02-13** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-14** On 1st reading
+- **2020-02-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-17** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-02-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-18** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-02-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-18** Passed Senate (Roll No. 172) `passage`
+- **2020-02-18** Effective from passage (Roll No. 172)
+- **2020-02-18** Ordered to House
+- **2020-02-19** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2020-02-19** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-19** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-21** Do pass
+- **2020-02-24** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-26** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-27** From Special Calendar, 3rd reading, placed on House Calendar
+- **2020-02-28** On 3rd reading, House Calendar
+- **2020-02-28** From House Calendar, 3rd reading, placed on Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-28** Passed House (Roll No. 409) `passage`
+- **2020-02-28** Effective from passage (Roll No. 410)
+- **2020-02-28** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-02-28** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-02-29** House Message received
+- **2020-03-10** To Governor 3/10/20 `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/10/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/10/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/12/20 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/12/20 - Senate Journal
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/12/20 - House Journal
+- **2020-04-15** Chapter 19, 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/7a8763aa-d382-47d3-9ff6-7ab7f03fc16f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+