---
type: "Bill"
title: "Permitting vehicles displaying disabled veterans' special registration plates to park in places where persons with mobility impairments may park"
description: "Permitting vehicles displaying disabled veterans' special registration plates to park in places where persons with mobility impairments may park"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2036"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2036 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cooper"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 38
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4730a340-09db-4b1a-8a28-ff631cd12e95"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2036&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "59629496afe806fe35107491aa1e74654f0425998fc18c322ff1d09e609ee9aa"
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 2036 (2019) — Permitting vehicles displaying disabled veterans' special registration plates to park in places where persons with mobility impairments may park

## 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=hb2036%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2036)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2036%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2036)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Cooper — primary (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Rowan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-09** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-09** To Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-09** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-09** To House Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-23** Do pass
- **2019-01-23** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2019-01-24** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-28** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-01-28** Passed House (Roll No. 30) `passage`
- **2019-01-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-01-29** House Message received
- **2019-01-29** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-29** To Military
- **2019-01-29** To Military
- **2019-02-20** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-21** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-22** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-23** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-23** Laid over on 3rd reading 2/23/19
- **2019-02-25** Reported by clerk
- **2019-02-25** Passed Senate (Roll No. 237) `passage`
- **2019-02-25** Communicated to House
- **2019-02-25** Completed legislative action
- **2019-02-26** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-04** To Governor 3/4/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-05** To Governor 3/4/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-04** To Governor 3/4/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/9/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/9/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/9/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 261, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4730a340-09db-4b1a-8a28-ff631cd12e95`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).