---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating license plate for recipients of Medal of Valor"
description: "Creating license plate for recipients of Medal of Valor"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 464"
citation: "West Virginia SB 464 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Military and Veterans", "Motor Vehicles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Morris"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 42
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-14"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/300b9810-229f-40fb-8bbc-025b4d4ae54b"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=464&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "d5bbfd10870cff5afba5f41cb9f6256b9bf3b9ecddbd1971445e2593d9df394b"
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 SB 464 (2025) — Creating license plate for recipients of Medal of Valor

## 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=sb464%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=464)
2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb464%20sub2.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=464)
3. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb464%20sub2%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=464)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb464%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=464)
5. **sb464 h epw am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb464%20h%20epw%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)
6. **sb464 hfat anderson 4-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb464%20hfat%20anderson%204-7%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Morris — primary (person)
- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Fuller — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Helton — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Weld — cosponsor (person)
- Willis — cosponsor (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-14** To Transportation and Infrastructure then Finance
- **2025-02-14** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-14** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2025-03-11** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
- **2025-03-11** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
- **2025-03-24** Immediate consideration
- **2025-03-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-25** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-26** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-26** Passed Senate (Roll No. 180) `passage`
- **2025-03-26** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-26** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-26** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-26** To Energy and Public Works
- **2025-03-26** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-07** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-04-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-08** Passed House (Roll No. 417) `passage`
- **2025-04-08** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-09** House Message received
- **2025-04-09** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 419)
- **2025-04-09** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-09** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-14** To Governor 4/14/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/14/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/14/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-24** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 176, 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/300b9810-229f-40fb-8bbc-025b4d4ae54b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).