---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring the Secretary of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to study the housing needs of veterans"
description: "Requiring the Secretary of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to study the housing needs of veterans"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2926"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2926 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Military and Veterans"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rowe"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 36
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-08"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/45e33b25-a3e6-4915-b974-b5a0a8eb2461"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2926&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "6ab1bd70f1327c8c973e64fe52143941ed27941c4ba985cbcecb51bc9a46b242"
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 2926 (2019) — Requiring the Secretary of the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to study the housing needs of veterans

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2926%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2926)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2926%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2926)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rowe — primary (person)
- Bates — cosponsor (person)
- Estep-Burton — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Longstreth — cosponsor (person)
- McGeehan — cosponsor (person)
- Miller — cosponsor (person)
- Pyles — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Westfall — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-08** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-02-08** To Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security then Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-08** To House Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-15** Do pass, but first to Government Organization
- **2019-02-15** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-20** Do pass
- **2019-02-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-22** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-25** Passed House (Roll No. 293) `passage`
- **2019-02-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-26** House Message received
- **2019-02-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-26** To Military
- **2019-02-26** To Military
- **2019-03-05** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-06** On 1st reading
- **2019-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-08** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 454) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-25** To Governor 3/25/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 263, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/45e33b25-a3e6-4915-b974-b5a0a8eb2461`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).