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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to including the United States Space Force in the definition armed forces"
+description: "Relating to including the United States Space Force in the definition armed forces"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 2053"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2053 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Military and Veterans"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Smith, D."]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-12"
+last_action: "2025-07-31"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6d6fcae5-5869-4b5a-ac27-8417189f018b"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2053&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "2754ec534b2f9918fa8449ea77bf2b48214c83212e61d9243e4db340cf252fef"
+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 2053 (2025) — Relating to including the United States Space Force in the definition armed forces
+
+## 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=hb2053%20sub.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2053)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2053%20sub%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2053)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2053%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2053)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2053%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2053)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **33–1** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **97–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Smith, D. — primary (person)
+- Heckert — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-12** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-02-12** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-14** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-02-19** By substitute, do pass
+- **2025-02-20** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-02-24** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-02-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-02-24** Passed House (Roll No. 8) `passage`
+- **2025-02-24** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-02-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-02-26** To Military then Finance
+- **2025-02-26** To Military
+- **2025-03-10** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-10** 2nd reference dispensed
+- **2025-03-11** On 1st reading
+- **2025-03-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-12** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-03-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-13** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-03-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-13** Passed Senate (Roll No. 107) `passage`
+- **2025-03-13** Communicated to House
+- **2025-03-13** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-03-14** House received Senate message
+- **2025-03-17** To Governor 3/17/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-17** To Governor 3/18/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-18** To Governor 3/17/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-03-21** Approved by Governor 3/21/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-21** Approved by Governor 3/21/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-03-21** Approved by Governor 3/21/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-07-31** Chapter 177, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6d6fcae5-5869-4b5a-ac27-8417189f018b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+