---
type: "Bill"
title: "Allow county political parties to have building funds in a similar manner that state parties are allowed"
description: "Allow county political parties to have building funds in a similar manner that state parties are allowed"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2688"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2688 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Higginbotham"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 38
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-23"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f48e3ccc-8714-4761-95cf-8f3cb8908792"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2688&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "2f4720d4b774bcb96073b57a9f4c0e3e674b81f8396ce28f9cd87f3d7f910196"
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 2688 (2021) — Allow county political parties to have building funds in a similar manner that state parties are allowed

## 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=HB2688%20SUB.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2688)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2688%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2688)
3. **HB2688 SFAT TRUMP 4-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/HB2688 SFAT TRUMP 4-9 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2688%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2688)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Higginbotham — primary (person)
- Pack, L. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-23** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-02-23** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-23** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-02-23** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10** By substitute, do pass
- **2021-03-11** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-12** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-15** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-15** Passed House (Roll No. 155) `passage`
- **2021-03-15** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-16** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-16** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-07** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-08** On 1st reading
- **2021-04-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-04-09** On 2nd reading
- **2021-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-10** On 3rd reading
- **2021-04-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-10** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 488) `passage`
- **2021-04-10** Senate requests House to concur
- **2021-04-10** House received Senate message
- **2021-04-10** House concurred in Senate title amendment
- **2021-04-10** Passed House (Roll No. 655) `passage`
- **2021-04-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-04-10** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-10** House Message received
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/22/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-22** To Governor 4/22/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/22/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 - House Journal
- **2021-04-26** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-20** Chapter 107, Acts, Regular Session, 2021

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f48e3ccc-8714-4761-95cf-8f3cb8908792`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).