---
type: "Bill"
title: "Supplementing and amending appropriations to the Department of Veterans’ Assistance, Veterans’ Home"
description: "Supplementing and amending appropriations to the Department of Veterans’ Assistance, Veterans’ Home"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "20242S"
identifier: "HB 203"
citation: "West Virginia HB 203 (20242S)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 30
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-09-30"
last_action: "2024-10-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6713239-c572-4383-a3c3-b2ca1686e4a1"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=203&year=2024&sessiontype=2X&btype=bill"
source_hash: "3ca82feca711ccc634dd3c98c92dd43015e2564c762a531df8f18dd16a58accf"
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 203 (20242S) — Supplementing and amending appropriations to the Department of Veterans’ Assistance, Veterans’ Home

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb203%20eng.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=2X&i=203)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb203%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=2X&i=203)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb203%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=2X&i=203)

## Votes

- SUSPEND CONSTITUTIONAL RULE — **88–3** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **91–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hanshaw — primary (person)
- Hornbuckle — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-09-30** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-09-30** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-09-30** Reference dispensed
- **2024-09-30** Immediate consideration
- **2024-09-30** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-09-30** Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 845)
- **2024-09-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-09-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-09-30** Passed House (Roll No. 846) `passage`
- **2024-09-30** Effective from passage (Roll No. 847)
- **2024-09-30** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-09-30** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-09-30** Committee reference dispensed
- **2024-09-30** Immediate consideration
- **2024-09-30** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-09-30** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 7)
- **2024-09-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-09-30** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-09-30** Passed Senate (Roll No. 8) `passage`
- **2024-09-30** Effective from passage (Roll No. 8)
- **2024-09-30** Communicated to House
- **2024-09-30** Completed legislative action
- **2024-10-08** House received Senate message
- **2024-10-06** To Governor 10/4/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-10-04** To Governor 10/4/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-10-07** To Governor 10/4/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-10-08** Approved by Governor 10/10/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-10-10** Approved by Governor 10/10/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-10-08** Approved by Governor 10/10/2024 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-10-30** Chapter 3, Acts, 2nd Extraordinary 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/f6713239-c572-4383-a3c3-b2ca1686e4a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).