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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Exempting WV veterans from certain fees and charges at state parks"
+description: "Exempting WV veterans from certain fees and charges at state parks"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "SB 222"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 222 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Natural Resources"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Weld"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-01-11"
+last_action: "2024-04-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f6902f0-028a-413b-bde6-bb0eea21b1bb"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=222&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "7116735a17d9c030fa650d76bc458050f9f4e12908d63a76669da17b0cc9268b"
+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 222 (2024) — Exempting WV veterans from certain fees and charges at state parks
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb222%20sub1.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=222)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb222%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=222)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb222%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=222)
+4. **sb222 h fin am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/sb222%20h%20fin%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **98–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Weld — primary (person)
+- Caputo — cosponsor (person)
+- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
+- Grady — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Stuart — cosponsor (person)
+- Trump — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2024-01-11** To Military
+- **2024-01-11** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2024-01-11** To Military
+- **2024-01-24** Committee substitute reported
+- **2024-01-25** On 1st reading
+- **2024-01-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-01-26** On 2nd reading
+- **2024-01-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-01-29** On 3rd reading
+- **2024-01-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-01-29** Passed Senate (Roll No. 72) `passage`
+- **2024-01-29** Ordered to House
+- **2024-01-30** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2024-01-30** To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-30** To House Agriculture and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-15** Do pass, but first to Finance
+- **2024-02-15** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-05** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2024-03-06** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-03-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-03-07** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2024-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2024-03-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-08** Passed House (Roll No. 653) `passage`
+- **2024-03-08** Communicated to Senate
+- **2024-03-09** House Message received
+- **2024-03-09** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 482)
+- **2024-03-09** Communicated to House
+- **2024-03-09** Completed legislative action
+- **2024-03-09** House received Senate message
+- **2024-03-19** To Governor 3/19/2024 `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/19/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/19/24 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2024-04-23** Chapter 265, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4f6902f0-028a-413b-bde6-bb0eea21b1bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+