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Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security Committee, West Virginia House of Delegates

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The Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security Committee is a standing committee of the West Virginia House of Delegates.

Per the House Rules, West Virginia House of Delegates committees are assigned by the Speaker of the House, unless the House orders otherwise. The Speaker must designate a chair for all standing committees and may also designate a vice chair. Additionally, the Speaker serves as an ex officio voting member and chair of the Rules Committee. A majority of committee members constitutes a quorum.[1]

DocumentIcon.jpg See rules: House Rules

Function

According to the House Rules, the Veterans' Affairs and Homeland Security Committee handles the following subject areas:

“ (a) Veterans’ measures; (b) education of veterans; (c) cemeteries of the State in which veterans of any war or conflict are or may be buried; (d) measures generally affecting the health and welfare of veterans; (e) measures relating to detection, protection against, response to, and recovery from, terrorist attacks, internal or external; and (f) military affairs.[2][3] ”

Membership

Note: This membership information was last updated in September 2023. Ballotpedia completes biannual updates of committee membership. If you would like to send us an update, email us at: editor@ballotpedia.org.

2023-2024 legislative session

Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security Committee, 2023-2024
Democratic members (3) Republican members (22) Third-party members(0)

2021-2022 legislative session

Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security Committee, 2021-2022
Democratic members (6) Republican members (18) Third-party members(0)

Joshua Higginbotham (R) left this committee on November 05, 2021. [Source]

2019-2020 legislative session

Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security Committee, 2019-2020
Democratic members (10) Republican members (12) Third-party members(0)

2017 legislative session

The following table describes committee membership at the beginning of the 2017 legislative session.

Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security Members, 2017
Democratic members (9)Republican members (16)
• Richard Iaquinta• Roy G. Cooper, Chair
• Andrew Byrd• Jim Butler, Chair
• Joe Canestraro• Danny Wagner, Vice chair
• Stephen Baldwin, Jr.• Patrick McGeehan, Vice chair
• Michael Ferro• Karen "Lynne" Arvon
• Barbara Fleischauer• Joshua Higginbotham
• Linda Longstreth• Ray Hollen
• Dana Lynch• Gary Howell
• Mike Pushkin• John R. Kelly
• Kayla Kessinger
• Tony Lewis
• Tony Paynter
• Ruth Rowan
• Terri Funk Sypolt
• Jill Upson
• S. Marshall Wilson

2015-2016

The following table describes committee membership at the beginning of the 2015 legislative session.

2013-2014

2011-2012

2009-2010

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ West Virginia State Legislature, "House Rules," accessed Feb. 21, 2021
  2. ↑ West Virginia State Legislature, "House Rules," accessed Feb. 21, 2021
  3. ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.


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Minority Leader:Sean Hornbuckle
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