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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to Secretary of State annual reports, fees, and veteran-owned business logotypes"
+description: "Relating to Secretary of State annual reports, fees, and veteran-owned business logotypes"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 5227"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 5227 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Constitutional Officers"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Funkhouser"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 44
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2026-02-05"
+last_action: "2026-06-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72634424-0c3f-43d9-9c6b-9cda8fcf9ab2"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5227&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "c94ddb865aa6eb0fc8bca1d13d325df1910c58d7345462837bb52a7caca07d24"
+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 5227 (2026) — Relating to Secretary of State annual reports, fees, and veteran-owned business logotypes
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5227%20eng.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=5227)
+2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5227%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=5227)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5227%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=5227)
+4. **hb5227 hfa akers 2-24 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/floor_amends/hb5227%20hfa%20akers%202-24%20_1%20adopted.htm)
+5. **hb5227 s jud am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/com_amends/hb5227%20s%20jud%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)
+6. **hb5227 s jud amt adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/com_amends/hb5227%20s%20jud%20amt%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- EFFECT Jul 01, 2026 — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **92–0** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Funkhouser — primary (person)
+- Heckert — cosponsor (person)
+- Hillenbrand — cosponsor (person)
+- Moore — cosponsor (person)
+- Ridenour — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-02-05** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2026-02-05** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-05** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2026-02-05** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-18** To House Legal Services `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-19** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-20** Markup Discussion
+- **2026-02-23** Do pass
+- **2026-02-24** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-25** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2026-02-25** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2026-02-26** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-26** Passed House (Roll No. 208) `passage`
+- **2026-02-26** Communicated to Senate
+- **2026-02-27** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2026-02-27** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-27** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-04** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2026-03-05** On 1st reading
+- **2026-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2026-03-06** On 2nd reading
+- **2026-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-06** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2026-03-09** On 3rd reading
+- **2026-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-09** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 380) `passage`
+- **2026-03-09** Effective July 1, 2026 (Roll No. 381)
+- **2026-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2026-03-10** House received Senate message
+- **2026-03-10** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 382)
+- **2026-03-10** House concurred in Senate effective date (Roll No. 383)
+- **2026-03-10** Communicated to Senate
+- **2026-03-10** Completed legislative action
+- **2026-03-11** House Message received
+- **2026-03-11** To Governor 3/11/2026 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-11** To Governor 3/11/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2026-04-01** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 `executive-signature`
+- **2026-06-29** Chapter 167, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/72634424-0c3f-43d9-9c6b-9cda8fcf9ab2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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