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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Providing lifetime hunting, fishing, and trapping license to residents, adopted, and foster children under 15"
+description: "Providing lifetime hunting, fishing, and trapping license to residents, adopted, and foster children under 15"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 502"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 502 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Natural Resources"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hamilton"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 42
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-03-01"
+last_action: "2021-05-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c45729da-95ed-42c3-89f1-f5c25dc1a010"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=502&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "b2ed899b3b6b53ad9b669fc9c6c8ab1d8a90b6898e25c98cda7059f0e77002c3"
+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 502 (2021) — Providing lifetime hunting, fishing, and trapping license to residents, adopted, and foster children under 15
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB502%20SUB1.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=502)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB502%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=502)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB502%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=502)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hamilton — primary (person)
+- Grady — cosponsor (person)
+- Ihlenfeld — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
+- Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
+- Romano — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Stover — cosponsor (person)
+- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-01** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2021-03-01** To Natural Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2021-03-01** To Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-02** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-02** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-12** Committee substitute reported
+- **2021-03-15** On 1st reading
+- **2021-03-15** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2021-03-16** On 2nd reading
+- **2021-03-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-03-17** On 3rd reading
+- **2021-03-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-03-17** Passed Senate (Roll No. 142) `passage`
+- **2021-03-17** Effective from passage (Roll No. 142)
+- **2021-03-17** Ordered to House
+- **2021-03-18** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2021-03-18** To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-18** To House Agriculture and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-26** Do pass, but first to Finance
+- **2021-03-26** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-05** Do pass
+- **2021-04-06** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2021-04-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2021-04-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2021-04-07** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 4/8
+- **2021-04-08** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2021-04-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-04-09** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2021-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-04-09** Passed House (Roll No. 553) `passage`
+- **2021-04-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 554)
+- **2021-04-09** Communicated to Senate
+- **2021-04-09** Completed legislative action
+- **2021-04-10** House Message received
+- **2021-04-16** To Governor 4/16/21 `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/16/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/16/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-26** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 `executive-signature`
+- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 - Senate Journal
+- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 - House Journal
+- **2021-05-24** Chapter 192, Acts, Regular Session, 2021
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c45729da-95ed-42c3-89f1-f5c25dc1a010`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+