---
type: "Bill"
title: "Declaring certain claims to be moral obligations of state"
description: "Declaring certain claims to be moral obligations of state"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 571"
citation: "West Virginia SB 571 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Legislature", "Local and Special Laws"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Tarr"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 40
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-02-03"
last_action: "2022-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/43ce781a-c774-4813-80f8-d55ed84fbb4b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=571&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "9244bad6e06444a7a7a0eb6e50721f6d82987f09612c2b7e1de18562874659f7"
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 571 (2022) — Declaring certain claims to be moral obligations of state

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB571%20SUB1.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=571)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB571%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=571)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB571%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=571)
4. **SB571 H FIN AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/SB571 H FIN AM _1 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Tarr — primary (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-03** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-02-03** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-03** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-03** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-16** Committee substitute reported
- **2022-02-17** On 1st reading
- **2022-02-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-18** On 2nd reading
- **2022-02-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-21** On 3rd reading
- **2022-02-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-21** Passed Senate (Roll No. 170) `passage`
- **2022-02-21** Effective from passage (Roll No. 170)
- **2022-02-21** Ordered to House
- **2022-02-22** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-02-22** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-22** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-07** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-08** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-03-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-09** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-09** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-10** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-10** Passed House (Roll No. 497) `passage`
- **2022-03-10** Effective from passage (Roll No. 498)
- **2022-03-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-11** House Message received
- **2022-03-11** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 429)
- **2022-03-11** Effective from passage (Roll No. 429)
- **2022-03-11** Communicated to House
- **2022-03-11** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-15** To Governor 3/15/2022 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/15/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/15/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - Senate Journal
- **2022-04-20** Chapter 51, Acts, Regular Session, 2022

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/43ce781a-c774-4813-80f8-d55ed84fbb4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).