Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.
3 instruments in West Virginia. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.
A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.
▲Expands benefitsLets a veteran paid at the total rate through individual unemployability qualify for the disabled veteran property tax credit without a 90 percent rating.
The old definition required a person "considered at least 90 percent totally and permanently disabled due solely to service-connected disabilities." The new one reaches a person rated 90 percent or greater "or meets the eligibility requirements for individual unemployability." A veteran paid at the total rate through unemployability now qualifies without a 90 percent schedular rating. The Department of Veterans Assistance still describes eligibility as a 90 to 100 percent combined rating and has not added the unemployability route.
▲Expands benefitsWould have phased in an increase to the $20,000 homestead exemption in W. Va. Code § 11-6B-3.
Died in House Finance. The $20,000 homestead exemption has not changed since House Bill 201 of the 1990 second special session, and SB 724 in 2025 failed as well. Anything describing a larger West Virginia homestead exemption is describing a bill, not the law.
▼Restricts benefitsRepealed the War Orphan Education Program in W. Va. Code §§ 18-19-1 to 18-19-4 without re-enacting it.
A cleanup act repealing roughly a hundred "antiquated, inoperative, conflicting and duplicative" sections across chapters 18 and 18B took the entire war orphan article with it. Nothing in the act re-enacted the program elsewhere. The Department of Veterans Assistance education page and the federal Army benefits library both still advertise it with dollar figures and a live application link.
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