---
type: "Bill"
title: "Declaring November 14 every year, a special Memorial Day in remembrance of the Marshall University airplane crash"
description: "Declaring November 14 every year, a special Memorial Day in remembrance of the Marshall University airplane crash"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2412"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2412 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance and Administration"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hornbuckle"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 36
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-11"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05bc6d1b-0f76-4252-9c53-2065b59e949d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2412&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "042c862899f32bc41477a48f943a24cf84883d0c96aa572195cc5e18b6882079"
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 2412 (2023) — Declaring November 14 every year, a special Memorial Day in remembrance of the Marshall University airplane crash

## 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=hb2412%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2412)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2412%20sub%20eng.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2412)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2412%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2412)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2412%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2412)
5. **hb2412 hfa hornbuckle 1-20 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2412 hfa hornbuckle 1-20 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hornbuckle — primary (person)
- Adkins — cosponsor (person)
- Anderson — cosponsor (person)
- Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Linville — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-11** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-11** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-11** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-17** By substitute, do pass
- **2023-01-18** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-01-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-19** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-01-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-01-20** On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar
- **2023-01-20** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2023-01-20** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-01-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-01-20** Passed House (Roll No. 20) `passage`
- **2023-01-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-01-23** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-01-23** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-23** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-10** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-13** On 1st reading
- **2023-02-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-14** On 2nd reading
- **2023-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-15** On 3rd reading
- **2023-02-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-15** Passed Senate (Roll No. 186) `passage`
- **2023-02-15** Communicated to House
- **2023-02-15** Completed legislative action
- **2023-02-16** House received Senate message
- **2023-02-20** To Governor 2/20/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-21** To Governor 2/20/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-20** To Governor 2/20/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-23** Approved by Governor 2/22/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-02-22** Approved by Governor 2/22/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-02-23** Approved by Governor 2/22/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 185, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/05bc6d1b-0f76-4252-9c53-2065b59e949d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).