---
type: "Bill"
title: "Supplementing and amending appropriations to Department of Veterans’ Assistance"
description: "Supplementing and amending appropriations to Department of Veterans’ Assistance"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "20241S"
identifier: "SB 1008"
citation: "West Virginia SB 1008 (20241S)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Blair"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 31
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2024-05-19"
last_action: "2024-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/061d4dd3-d49b-4a86-b798-67f292959e78"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=1008&year=2024&sessiontype=1X&btype=bill"
source_hash: "594e356f8b795cd9f66ec1f399a4424577a6d2dc232d791a5c8d9dbfd00b6224"
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 1008 (20241S) — Supplementing and amending appropriations to Department of Veterans’ Assistance

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb1008%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=1X&i=1008)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb1008%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=1X&i=1008)

## Votes

- Passage — **31–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION — **85–0** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **86–0** (pass) · lower
- SUSPEND CONSTITUTIONAL RULE — **84–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Blair — primary (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-19** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-05-19** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-05-19** Committee reference dispensed
- **2024-05-19** Immediate consideration
- **2024-05-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-05-20** On 2nd reading
- **2024-05-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-05-20** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 21)
- **2024-05-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-05-20** Passed Senate (Roll No. 22) `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Effective from passage (Roll No. 22)
- **2024-05-20** Ordered to House
- **2024-05-20** House received Senate message
- **2024-05-20** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-05-20** Reference dispensed
- **2024-05-20** Immediate consideration
- **2024-05-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-05-20** Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 809)
- **2024-05-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-05-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-05-20** Passed House (Roll No. 810) `passage`
- **2024-05-20** Effective from passage (Roll No. 811)
- **2024-05-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-05-20** Completed legislative action
- **2024-05-20** House Message received
- **2024-05-23** To Governor 5/23/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-21** To Governor 5/23/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-24** Approved by Governor 5/24/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-21** Approved by Governor 5/24/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-21** Approved by Governor 5/24/2024 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-05-30** Chapter 8, Acts, 1st Extraordinary Session, 2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/061d4dd3-d49b-4a86-b798-67f292959e78`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).