---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing certain criteria for the restricted operation of drones within State Parks, Forests, and Rail Trails"
description: "Establishing certain criteria for the restricted operation of drones within State Parks, Forests, and Rail Trails"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 4607"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4607 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Natural Resources", "Public Safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hamrick"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 42
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-02-13"
last_action: "2018-04-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9fe1ee88-e3e3-4c1f-8aa3-6e00a99a5fb8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4607&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "30dc4bb4b9ee45210ce968c74f0866b60274588b1a4b28d75e5b35b403eff26c"
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 4607 (2018) — Establishing certain criteria for the restricted operation of drones within State Parks, Forests, and Rail Trails

## 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=HB4607%20SUB.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4607)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4607%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4607)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4607%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4607)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **92–1** (pass) · legislature
- PREVIOUS QUESTION — **65–32** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Hamrick — primary (person)
- Graves — cosponsor (person)
- Higginbotham — cosponsor (person)
- Howell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-02-13** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-02-13** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-20** By substitute, do pass
- **2018-02-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-22** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-23** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-23** Passed House (Roll No. 210) `passage`
- **2018-02-23** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-02-26** House Message received
- **2018-02-26** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-26** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-26** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-08** Reported do pass, with amendments and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-08** Immediate consideration
- **2018-03-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-09** On 2nd reading
- **2018-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-09** Committee amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2018-03-10** On 3rd reading
- **2018-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-10** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 509) `passage`
- **2018-03-10** Senate requests House to concur
- **2018-03-10** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-10** Motion for previous question adopted (Voice)
- **2018-03-10** House concurred in Senate amendment (Voice vote)
- **2018-03-10** Motion for previous question adopted (Roll No. 568)
- **2018-03-10** Passed House (Roll No. 569) `passage`
- **2018-03-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-10** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-10** House Message received
- **2018-03-21** To Governor 3/21/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/21/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/21/18 - 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
- **2018-04-17** Chapter 175, 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/9fe1ee88-e3e3-4c1f-8aa3-6e00a99a5fb8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).