---
type: "Bill"
title: "Revising criteria for receiving reenlistment or retention bonus"
description: "Revising criteria for receiving reenlistment or retention bonus"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 600"
citation: "West Virginia SB 600 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Military and Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Weld"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-30"
last_action: "2024-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/295f01b8-7cc0-44a7-a2fd-a04b01262a93"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=600&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "1f9fd43a8d2cb9ce27e0b664a2de3b27213dbbb65cbc25fdc44db1f0e238124c"
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 600 (2024) — Revising criteria for receiving reenlistment or retention bonus

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb600%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=600)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb600%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=600)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Weld — primary (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-30** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-30** To Military then Finance
- **2024-01-30** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-01-30** To Military
- **2024-02-06** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-06** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2024-02-07** On 1st reading
- **2024-02-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-08** On 2nd reading
- **2024-02-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-09** On 3rd reading
- **2024-02-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 112) `passage`
- **2024-02-09** Ordered to House
- **2024-02-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-02-12** To Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-12** To House Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-21** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2024-02-21** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-21** Reference dispensed
- **2024-02-22** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-23** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-26** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-26** Passed House (Roll No. 291) `passage`
- **2024-02-26** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-26** Completed legislative action
- **2024-02-27** House Message received
- **2024-03-01** To Governor 3/1/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-01** To Governor 3/1/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/7/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-08** Approved by Governor 3/7/2024 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-23** Chapter 235, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/295f01b8-7cc0-44a7-a2fd-a04b01262a93`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).