---
type: "Bill"
title: "Deceased Disabled Veteran Real Property Exemption for Widowed Spouses"
description: "Deceased Disabled Veteran Real Property Exemption for Widowed Spouses"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2121"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2121 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Real and Personal Property"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Smith, D."]
version_count: 6
action_count: 40
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-12"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6c4d659-61de-4b92-a9ea-03cda36d2248"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2121&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "1683a5d38a7bcbe2aeb9d06fcd7ce6fbe77d8f6d6b3969563617dfc6047897f0"
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 2121 (2025) — Deceased Disabled Veteran Real Property Exemption for Widowed Spouses

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2121%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2121)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2121%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2121)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2121%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2121)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2121%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2121)
5. **hb2121 s mil am _1 4-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2121%20s%20mil%20am%20_1%204-2%20adopted.htm)
6. **hb2121 s mil amt _1 4-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2121%20s%20mil%20amt%20_1%204-2%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Smith, D. — primary (person)
- Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- Criss — cosponsor (person)
- Gearheart — cosponsor (person)
- Heckert — cosponsor (person)
- Hillenbrand — cosponsor (person)
- Hite — cosponsor (person)
- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
- McGeehan — cosponsor (person)
- Sheedy — cosponsor (person)
- Zatezalo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-12** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-12** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** By substitute, do pass
- **2025-03-25** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-26** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-27** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-27** Passed House (Roll No. 206) `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-29** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-29** To Military then Finance
- **2025-03-29** To Military
- **2025-04-04** Reported do pass with amend and title amend but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-04** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-09** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 468) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Senate requests House to concur
- **2025-04-12** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-12** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 571)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-22** To Governor 4/22/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-28** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-31** Chapter 239, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f6c4d659-61de-4b92-a9ea-03cda36d2248`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).