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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allowing family members of military personnel access to discharge records"
description: "Allowing family members of military personnel access to discharge records"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 527"
citation: "West Virginia SB 527 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Records and Papers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Trump"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 39
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-31"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3e567d70-f588-46cc-9ec3-ec3e8568e134"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=527&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "046da36d3d7d74713276eb7ed25272cd55ca5c8872f56b8de8facb9bfc5fed37"
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 527 (2023) — Allowing family members of military personnel access to discharge records
## 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=sb527%20sub1.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=527)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb527%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=527)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb527%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=527)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb527%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=527)
5. **sb527 sfa weld _1 2-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/sb527 sfa weld _1 2-6 adopted.htm)
## Votes
- Passage — **340** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Trump — primary (person)
- Azinger — cosponsor (person)
- Caputo — cosponsor (person)
- Clements — cosponsor (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Stover — cosponsor (person)
- Stuart — cosponsor (person)
- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Weld — cosponsor (person)
- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-31** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-31** To Military
- **2023-01-31** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-01-31** To Military
- **2023-02-08** Committee substitute reported
- **2023-02-09** On 1st reading
- **2023-02-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-10** On 2nd reading
- **2023-02-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-13** On 3rd reading
- **2023-02-13** Laid over on 3rd reading 2/13/2023
- **2023-02-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-14** Unanimous consent to amend on 3rd reading
- **2023-02-14** Amended on 3rd reading (Voice vote)
- **2023-02-14** Passed Senate (Roll No. 183) `passage`
- **2023-02-14** Ordered to House
- **2023-02-15** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-02-15** To Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-15** To House Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-23** Do pass, but first to Judiciary
- **2023-02-23** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Do pass
- **2023-03-08** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-09** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-10** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-10** Passed House (Roll No. 677) `passage`
- **2023-03-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-10** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-11** House Message received
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/16/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-16** To Governor 3/16/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/16/23 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/23 `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/23 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 326, 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/3e567d70-f588-46cc-9ec3-ec3e8568e134`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).