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type: "Bill"
title: "Exempting WV veterans from certain fees and charges at state parks"
description: "Exempting WV veterans from certain fees and charges at state parks"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 222"
citation: "West Virginia SB 222 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Weld"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 41
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-11"
last_action: "2024-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4f6902f0-028a-413b-bde6-bb0eea21b1bb"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=222&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "7116735a17d9c030fa650d76bc458050f9f4e12908d63a76669da17b0cc9268b"
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 222 (2024) — Exempting WV veterans from certain fees and charges at state parks
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb222%20sub1.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=222)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb222%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=222)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb222%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=222)
4. **sb222 h fin am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/sb222%20h%20fin%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)
## Votes
- Passage — **320** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **980** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Weld — primary (person)
- Caputo — cosponsor (person)
- Chapman — cosponsor (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Stuart — cosponsor (person)
- Trump — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2024-01-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-11** To Military
- **2024-01-11** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-01-11** To Military
- **2024-01-24** Committee substitute reported
- **2024-01-25** On 1st reading
- **2024-01-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-01-26** On 2nd reading
- **2024-01-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-01-29** On 3rd reading
- **2024-01-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-01-29** Passed Senate (Roll No. 72) `passage`
- **2024-01-29** Ordered to House
- **2024-01-30** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-30** To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-30** To House Agriculture and Natural Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-15** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2024-02-15** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-06** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-03-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-07** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2024-03-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-03-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-08** Passed House (Roll No. 653) `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-09** House Message received
- **2024-03-09** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 482)
- **2024-03-09** Communicated to House
- **2024-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2024-03-19** To Governor 3/19/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/19/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/19/24 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-23** Chapter 265, Acts, Regular 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/4f6902f0-028a-413b-bde6-bb0eea21b1bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).