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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Expediting License Applications for active military members and veterans, and their spouses"
+description: "Expediting License Applications for active military members and veterans, and their spouses"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 2967"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2967 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Military and Veterans", "Professions and Occupations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cooper"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 50
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-24"
+last_action: "2023-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e00f9b1b-2b2f-4067-acab-5c5e081fbf2f"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2967&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "cd7af6375dbc246725b4700b649043f8c2fef731660b75ae74c2838aa312f5f8"
+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 2967 (2023) — Expediting License Applications for active military members and veterans, and their spouses
+
+## 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=hb2967%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2967)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2967%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2967)
+3. **hb2967 hfa phillips 2-8 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2967 hfa phillips 2-8 _1 adopted.htm)
+4. **hb2967 hfa phillips 3-11 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2967 hfa phillips 3-11 _1 adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cooper — primary (person)
+- Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Crouse — cosponsor (person)
+- Hillenbrand — cosponsor (person)
+- Honaker — cosponsor (person)
+- Longanacre — cosponsor (person)
+- Ridenour — cosponsor (person)
+- Sheedy — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Steele — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-24** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2023-01-24** To Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security then Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2023-01-24** To House Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-03** Do pass, but first to Government Organization
+- **2023-02-03** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-07** Do pass
+- **2023-02-07** Immediate consideration
+- **2023-02-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-08** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-02-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-08** Amendment withdrawn
+- **2023-02-09** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-02-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-09** Passed House (Roll No. 96) `passage`
+- **2023-02-09** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-02-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-02-10** To Military
+- **2023-02-10** To Military
+- **2023-03-08** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-08** Immediate consideration
+- **2023-03-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-03-09** On 2nd reading
+- **2023-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-10** On 3rd reading with right to amend
+- **2023-03-10** Rearranged on Calendar by Rules Committee
+- **2023-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-10** Committee amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
+- **2023-03-10** Weld floor amendment reported
+- **2023-03-10** Chapman amend to Weld amend rejected (Voice vote)
+- **2023-03-10** Weld floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2023-03-10** Passed Senate (Roll No. 537) `passage`
+- **2023-03-10** Committee title amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent (Voice vote)
+- **2023-03-10** Weld title amendment adopted
+- **2023-03-10** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2023-03-11** House received Senate message
+- **2023-03-11** House concurred in Senate amend with amend, passed bill (Roll No. 745)
+- **2023-03-11** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-03-11** House Message received
+- **2023-03-11** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 606)
+- **2023-03-11** Communicated to House
+- **2023-03-11** Completed legislative action
+- **2023-03-11** House received Senate message
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/27/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-27** To Governor 3/27/2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/27/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 `executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-01** Chapter 235, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e00f9b1b-2b2f-4067-acab-5c5e081fbf2f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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