---
type: "Bill"
title: "Adding the Curator of the West Virginia Division of Arts, Culture and History as an ex officio voting member of the commission"
description: "Adding the Curator of the West Virginia Division of Arts, Culture and History as an ex officio voting member of the commission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2834"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2834 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Personnel"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Espinosa"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 35
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-03-02"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3c2df112-d490-46df-8b67-7135b3caa91b"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2834&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "347bf0138834f6418f2fca0555971afaabe587858619c72d20234a2a19e7b1ac"
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 2834 (2021) — Adding the Curator of the West Virginia Division of Arts, Culture and History as an ex officio voting member of the commission

## 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=HB2834%20SUB.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2834)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2834%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2834)
3. **HB2834 H GO AMT adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB2834 H GO AMT adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2834%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2834)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Espinosa — primary (person)
- Barrett — cosponsor (person)
- Higginbotham — cosponsor (person)
- Householder — cosponsor (person)
- Howell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-02** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-03-02** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-02** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-03-02** To House Government Organization `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. 158) `passage`
- **2021-03-15** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-03-15** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-16** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-16** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-02** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-05** On 1st reading
- **2021-04-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-04-06** On 2nd reading
- **2021-04-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-07** On 3rd reading
- **2021-04-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 349) `passage`
- **2021-04-07** Communicated to House
- **2021-04-07** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-07** House received Senate message
- **2021-04-20** 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 150, 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/3c2df112-d490-46df-8b67-7135b3caa91b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).