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type: "Bill"
title: "Providing lifetime hunting, fishing, and trapping license to residents, adopted, and foster children under 15"
description: "Providing lifetime hunting, fishing, and trapping license to residents, adopted, and foster children under 15"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 502"
citation: "West Virginia SB 502 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hamilton"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 42
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-03-01"
last_action: "2021-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c45729da-95ed-42c3-89f1-f5c25dc1a010"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=502&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "b2ed899b3b6b53ad9b669fc9c6c8ab1d8a90b6898e25c98cda7059f0e77002c3"
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 502 (2021) — Providing lifetime hunting, fishing, and trapping license to residents, adopted, and foster children under 15
## 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=SB502%20SUB1.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=502)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB502%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=502)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB502%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=502)
## Votes
- Passage — **00** (fail) · upper
## Sponsors
- Hamilton — primary (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Ihlenfeld — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- Romano — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Stover — cosponsor (person)
- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2021-03-01** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-03-01** To Natural Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-01** To Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-02** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-12** Committee substitute reported
- **2021-03-15** On 1st reading
- **2021-03-15** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-16** On 2nd reading
- **2021-03-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-17** On 3rd reading
- **2021-03-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-17** Passed Senate (Roll No. 142) `passage`
- **2021-03-17** Effective from passage (Roll No. 142)
- **2021-03-17** Ordered to House
- **2021-03-18** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-03-18** To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18** To House Agriculture and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2021-03-26** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-05** Do pass
- **2021-04-06** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-04-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-07** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 4/8
- **2021-04-08** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-09** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-09** Passed House (Roll No. 553) `passage`
- **2021-04-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 554)
- **2021-04-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-04-09** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-10** House Message received
- **2021-04-16** To Governor 4/16/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/16/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/16/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-26** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 - House Journal
- **2021-05-24** Chapter 192, Acts, Regular Session, 2021
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c45729da-95ed-42c3-89f1-f5c25dc1a010`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).