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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Expanding county commissions’ ability to dispose of county or district property"
+description: "Expanding county commissions’ ability to dispose of county or district property"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 2654"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2654 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Counties"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Statler"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 37
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-01-10"
+last_action: "2018-04-16"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2bf208da-b617-4658-bbaa-ceef31952578"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2654&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "7be4d89904f7d95502a5ffdf9d4f13435ade43d715064d244d7c465610c424ba"
+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 HB 2654 (2018) — Expanding county commissions’ ability to dispose of county or district property
+
+## 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=HB2654%20SUB.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=2654)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2654%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=2654)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2654%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=2654)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
+- PASSAGE — **97–1** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Statler — primary (person)
+- Evans, E. — cosponsor (person)
+- Frich — cosponsor (person)
+- Miley — cosponsor (person)
+- Pethtel — cosponsor (person)
+- Upson — cosponsor (person)
+- Williams — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2018-01-10** To Political Subdivisions then Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2018-01-10** To House Political Subdivisions `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-17** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
+- **2018-01-17** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-02** By substitute, do pass
+- **2018-02-05** On 1st reading, House Calendar
+- **2018-02-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-06** On 2nd reading, House Calendar
+- **2018-02-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-07** On 3rd reading, House Calendar
+- **2018-02-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-07** Passed House (Roll No. 56) `passage`
+- **2018-02-07** Communicated to Senate
+- **2018-02-08** House Message received
+- **2018-02-08** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2018-02-08** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-08** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-28** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2018-03-01** On 1st reading
+- **2018-03-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2018-03-02** On 2nd reading
+- **2018-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-03** On 3rd reading
+- **2018-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-03** Passed Senate (Roll No. 305) `passage`
+- **2018-03-03** Communicated to House
+- **2018-03-03** Completed legislative action
+- **2018-03-05** House received Senate message
+- **2018-03-06** To Governor 3/6/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-06** To Governor 3/6/18 `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-06** To Governor 3/6/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - House Journal
+- **2018-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 `executive-signature`
+- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - Senate Journal
+- **2018-04-16** Chapter 53, Acts, Regular Session, 2018
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2bf208da-b617-4658-bbaa-ceef31952578`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+