---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing a Library Facilities Improvement Fund that will serve to support library facilities construction, maintenance and improvement projects"
description: "Establishing a Library Facilities Improvement Fund that will serve to support library facilities construction, maintenance and improvement projects"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 2890"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2890 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Human Services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lovejoy"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-01-10"
last_action: "2018-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fbb1fb26-aa2d-442b-acf2-fb19d2f0d9ac"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2890&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "e9d0a03871ec86562bcd0245df8b86c44aeef40ff730d0e39f17e315a1fd94ba"
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 2890 (2018) — Establishing a Library Facilities Improvement Fund that will serve to support library facilities construction, maintenance and improvement projects

## 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=HB2890%20SUB.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=2890)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2890%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=2890)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2890%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=2890)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Lovejoy — primary (person)
- Canestraro — cosponsor (person)
- Hicks — cosponsor (person)
- Hornbuckle — cosponsor (person)
- Isner — cosponsor (person)
- Miller, C. — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Romine, C. — cosponsor (person)
- Sobonya — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-01-10** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-12** By substitute, do pass
- **2018-02-13** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-15** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-15** Passed House (Roll No. 114) `passage`
- **2018-02-15** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-02-16** House Message received
- **2018-02-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-16** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-16** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-02-28** On 1st reading
- **2018-02-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-01** On 2nd reading
- **2018-03-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-02** On 3rd reading
- **2018-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-02** Passed Senate (Roll No. 281) `passage`
- **2018-03-02** Communicated to House
- **2018-03-02** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-02** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-08** To Governor 3/8/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-09** To Governor 3/8/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-08** To Governor 3/8/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/20/18 - House Journal
- **2018-03-20** Approved by Governor 3/20/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/20/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-04-16** Chapter 148, 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/fbb1fb26-aa2d-442b-acf2-fb19d2f0d9ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).