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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the establishment of the West Virginia Memorial to Fallen Heroes of the Global War on Terrorism"
+description: "Relating to the establishment of the West Virginia Memorial to Fallen Heroes of the Global War on Terrorism"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 3398"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 3398 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Military and Veterans"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["McGeehan"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 44
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-02-13"
+last_action: "2023-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/949ec25b-8464-4cae-b017-9dd705642797"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3398&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "702b54ffdc38cc33bbe5e7ce8c1b898f48d20526f67d8e94ae088f46bc4216d1"
+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 3398 (2023) — Relating to the establishment of the West Virginia Memorial to Fallen Heroes of the Global War on Terrorism
+
+## 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=hb3398%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3398)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3398%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3398)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3398%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3398)
+4. **hb3398 s fin amt _1 3-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/hb3398 s fin amt _1 3-7 adopted.htm)
+5. **hb3398 s mil am _1 3-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/hb3398 s mil am _1 3-6 adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- McGeehan — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-02-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2023-02-13** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2023-02-13** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-20** By substitute, do pass
+- **2023-02-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-02-21** Placed on House Calendar
+- **2023-02-23** On 1st reading, House Calendar
+- **2023-02-23** From Housel Calendar, 1st reading, placed on Special Calendar
+- **2023-02-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-25** Passed House (Roll No. 271) `passage`
+- **2023-02-25** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-02-27** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-02-27** To Military then Finance
+- **2023-02-27** To Military
+- **2023-03-06** Reported do pass, with amendment, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-06** Immediate consideration
+- **2023-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-03-06** On 2nd reading to Finance
+- **2023-03-08** Reported do pass, with title amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-08** Immediate consideration
+- **2023-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-09** On 3rd reading with right to amend
+- **2023-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-09** Military committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2023-03-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 472) `passage`
+- **2023-03-09** Finance committee title amendment adopted
+- **2023-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2023-03-11** House received Senate message
+- **2023-03-11** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 729)
+- **2023-03-11** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-03-11** Completed legislative action
+- **2023-03-11** House Message received
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/27/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **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** 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 327, 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/949ec25b-8464-4cae-b017-9dd705642797`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+