---
type: "Bill"
title: "To allow Gold Star spouses to receive one free Gold Star vehicle registration for personal use."
description: "To allow Gold Star spouses to receive one free Gold Star vehicle registration for personal use."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 5213"
citation: "West Virginia HB 5213 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Sheedy"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 38
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-26"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1399f26a-4b34-4135-8892-9d12bd0964ae"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5213&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "7c4bc2fca53d4b697ca4c7ed9cea0e7b6fc2c17cbbee2e1368c99c01a8c5a2f2"
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 5213 (2024) — To allow Gold Star spouses to receive one free Gold Star vehicle registration for personal use.

## 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=hb5213%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5213)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5213%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5213)
3. **hb5213 s mil am _1 2-29 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/hb5213%20s%20mil%20am%20_1%202-29%20adopted.htm)
4. **hb5213 s mil amt _ 2-29 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/hb5213%20s%20mil%20amt%20_%202-29%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Sheedy — primary (person)
- Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Heckert — cosponsor (person)
- Hillenbrand — cosponsor (person)
- Winzenreid — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-26** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-26** To Technology and Infrastructure `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-26** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-26** To Technology and Infrastructure `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** Do pass
- **2024-02-26** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-27** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-28** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Passed House (Roll No. 370) `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-29** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-29** To Military
- **2024-02-29** To Military
- **2024-03-04** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-04** Immediate consideration
- **2024-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-03-05** On 2nd reading
- **2024-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-05** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-03-06** On 3rd reading
- **2024-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-06** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 393) `passage`
- **2024-03-06** Senate requests House to concur
- **2024-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2024-03-08** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 631)
- **2024-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-09** House Message received
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-21** To Governor 3/21/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Chapter 190, 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/1399f26a-4b34-4135-8892-9d12bd0964ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).