---
type: "Bill"
title: "Conducting study for an appropriate memorial for West Virginians killed in the War on Terror"
description: "Conducting study for an appropriate memorial for West Virginians killed in the War on Terror"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4589"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4589 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pushkin"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 41
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-29"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5907b521-c03e-477e-ba3e-533d73d2fcb2"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4589&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "70d096f7a8f11f4f2697f6e529e39c814cc6f068fab79ca6b1968951ea2c25ff"
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 4589 (2020) — Conducting study for an appropriate memorial for West Virginians killed in the War on Terror

## 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=HB4589%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4589)
2. **HB4589 S MIL AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4589 S MIL AM _1 adopted.htm)
3. **HB4589 S MIL AMT _1 2-27 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4589 S MIL AMT _1 2-27 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4589%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4589)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **100–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Pushkin — primary (person)
- Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Estep-Burton — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Pyles — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2020-01-29** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-29** To Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security then Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-29** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-29** To House Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-17** Do pass
- **2020-02-17** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2020-02-18** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-19** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-20** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-20** Passed House (Roll No. 255) `passage`
- **2020-02-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-21** To Military
- **2020-02-21** To Military
- **2020-03-02** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-02** Immediate consideration
- **2020-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-03** On 2nd reading
- **2020-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-03** Committee Amendment Reported
- **2020-03-03** Deferred until foot of 2nd
- **2020-03-03** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-04** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-04** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 435) `passage`
- **2020-03-04** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-06** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-06** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 629)
- **2020-03-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-06** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-19** To Governor 3/19/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-24** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 351, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5907b521-c03e-477e-ba3e-533d73d2fcb2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).