republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2020/sb-705.md

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Bill	Allowing military veterans with certain experience qualify for examination as electrician or plumber	Allowing military veterans with certain experience qualify for examination as electrician or plumber	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2020	SB 705	West Virginia SB 705 (2020)	bill	Military and Veterans	enacted	Maynard	3	34	2	2020-02-05	2020-04-14	openstates	ocd-bill/3272aa39-1126-41f9-a701-08ab6a7879f6	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=705&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	7959341aede0708536322f942fa204c87810e28f926b878b96da9abbebafe9ff	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 705 (2020) — Allowing military veterans with certain experience qualify for examination as electrician or plumber

Version chain

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

1. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 96–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Maynard — primary (person)
• Blair — cosponsor (person)
• Clements — cosponsor (person)
• Cline — cosponsor (person)
• Rucker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-05 Filed for introduction filing
• 2020-02-05 To Workforce
• 2020-02-05 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2020-02-05 To Workforce
• 2020-02-19 Committee substitute reported
• 2020-02-20 On 1st reading
• 2020-02-20 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2020-02-21 On 2nd reading
• 2020-02-21 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-02-24 On 3rd reading
• 2020-02-24 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-02-24 Passed Senate (Roll No. 232) passage
• 2020-02-24 Ordered to House
• 2020-02-25 Introduced in House introduction
• 2020-02-25 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2020-02-25 To House Government Organization referral-committee
• 2020-02-28 Do pass
• 2020-02-29 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2020-02-29 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2020-03-02 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2020-03-02 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-03-03 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2020-03-03 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-03-03 Passed House (Roll No. 458) passage
• 2020-03-03 Communicated to Senate
• 2020-03-03 Completed legislative action
• 2020-03-04 House Message received
• 2020-03-13 To Governor 3/13/20 executive-receipt
• 2020-03-07 To Governor 3/13/20 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2020-03-07 To Governor 3/13/20 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2020-03-07 Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - House Journal
• 2020-03-24 Approved by Governor 3/24/20 executive-signature
• 2020-03-07 Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - Senate Journal
• 2020-04-14 Chapter 349, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3272aa39-1126-41f9-a701-08ab6a7879f6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).