---
type: "Bill"
title: "Extend the current veteran’s business fee waivers to active duty military members and spouses"
description: "Extend the current veteran’s business fee waivers to active duty military members and spouses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2874"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2874 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Military and Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Young"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 41
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-03-03"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1877a41c-847e-42a2-93b2-2a07efc79b14"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2874&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "a24dfecc3360579fe6323185ef40dfd71e06c008de7f95f621a468272a9eef50"
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 2874 (2021) — Extend the current veteran’s business fee waivers to active duty military members and spouses

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2874%20ENG.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2874)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2874%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2874)
3. **HB2874 HFA HOUSEHOLDER 3-24 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/HB2874 HFA HOUSEHOLDER 3-24 _1 adopted.htm)
4. **HB2874 HFAT HOUSEHOLDER 3-24 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/HB2874 HFAT HOUSEHOLDER 3-24 adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2874%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2874)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Young — primary (person)
- Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- Doyle — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Kimble — cosponsor (person)
- Longanacre — cosponsor (person)
- McGeehan — cosponsor (person)
- Steele — cosponsor (person)
- Wamsley — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)
- Zukoff — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-03** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-03-03** To Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-03** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-03-03** To House Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-11** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-11** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18** Do pass
- **2021-03-19** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-22** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-23** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-23** Postponed on 3rd reading, Special Calendar, until 3/24/21
- **2021-03-24** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-24** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2021-03-24** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-03-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-24** Passed House (Roll No. 265) `passage`
- **2021-03-24** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-03-24** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-25** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-25** To Military
- **2021-03-25** To Military
- **2021-04-02** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-05** On 1st reading
- **2021-04-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-04-06** On 2nd reading
- **2021-04-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-07** On 3rd reading
- **2021-04-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 350) `passage`
- **2021-04-07** Communicated to House
- **2021-04-07** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-07** House received Senate message
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/22/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-22** To Governor 4/22/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/22/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/28/21 - House Journal
- **2021-04-28** Approved by Governor 4/28/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/28/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-05-20** Chapter 120, Acts, Regular Session, 2021

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1877a41c-847e-42a2-93b2-2a07efc79b14`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).