---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to WV veterans service decoration and WV Service Cross"
description: "Relating to WV veterans service decoration and WV Service Cross"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 479"
citation: "West Virginia SB 479 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Military and Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Weld"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 38
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-03-01"
last_action: "2021-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/792912c0-91ab-4b8a-8211-4b7ab23988b8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=479&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "a46c323df67d4b8d5642ef9000b377dc4ab0020d1228cbdd9284bae4e63b3645"
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 479 (2021) — Relating to WV veterans service decoration and WV Service Cross

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB479%20SUB1.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=479)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB479%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=479)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB479%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=479)
4. **SB479 H GO AM _1 3-30 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/SB479 H GO AM _1 3-30 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Weld — primary (person)
- Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- Romano — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-01** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-03-01** To Military
- **2021-03-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-01** To Military
- **2021-03-18** Committee substitute reported
- **2021-03-19** On 1st reading
- **2021-03-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-22** On 2nd reading
- **2021-03-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-23** On 3rd reading
- **2021-03-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-23** Passed Senate (Roll No. 176) `passage`
- **2021-03-23** Ordered to House
- **2021-03-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-03-24** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-24** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-02** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-04-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-05** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-04-06** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-06** Passed House (Roll No. 463) `passage`
- **2021-04-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-04-07** House Message received
- **2021-04-07** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 337)
- **2021-04-07** Communicated to House
- **2021-04-07** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-07** House received Senate message
- **2021-04-13** To Governor 4/13/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/13/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/13/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/19/21 - House Journal
- **2021-04-19** Approved by Governor 4/19/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/19/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-05-24** Chapter 274, 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/792912c0-91ab-4b8a-8211-4b7ab23988b8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).