---
type: "Bill"
title: "Military Spouse hiring preference"
description: "Military Spouse hiring preference"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 3080"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3080 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Military and Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clark, W."]
version_count: 5
action_count: 40
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-03"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2c7d2c1b-660a-4f9a-8f74-4a071e7f154d"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3080&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "af52bc94acc6b902a211762284de7f0b2874c6e4355216af4ed4abfb37251054"
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 3080 (2025) — Military Spouse hiring preference

## 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=hb3080%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3080)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3080%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3080)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3080%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3080)
4. **hb3080 s mil am _1 4-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb3080%20s%20mil%20am%20_1%204-2%20adopted.htm)
5. **hb3080 s mil amt _1 4-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb3080%20s%20mil%20amt%20_1%204-2%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Clark, W. — primary (person)
- Funkhouser — cosponsor (person)
- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
- Horst — cosponsor (person)
- Ridenour — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-03** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-03** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-03** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** To House Agriculture, Commerce and Tourism `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** 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. 218) `passage`
- **2025-03-27** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-29** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-29** To Military
- **2025-03-29** To Military
- **2025-04-04** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-04** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-07** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-08** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-08** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 373) `passage`
- **2025-04-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2025-04-10** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-10** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 491)
- **2025-04-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-10** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-11** House Message received
- **2025-04-15** To Governor 4/15/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/15/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/15/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-29** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-31** Chapter 179, 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/2c7d2c1b-660a-4f9a-8f74-4a071e7f154d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).