---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the development and implementation of a program to facilitate commercial sponsorship of rest areas"
description: "Relating to the development and implementation of a program to facilitate commercial sponsorship of rest areas"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 2694"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2694 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Roads and Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hamrick"]
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/476bce5b-7587-4e8c-8407-db6c43231b6a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2694&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "91f787b11bdbd0d4e9de96ce0ab457ddf46df94a342d4304da42ce99f4bbe78c"
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 2694 (2018) — Relating to the development and implementation of a program to facilitate commercial sponsorship of rest areas

## 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=HB2694%20SUB.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=2694)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2694%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=2694)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2694%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=2694)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **94–1** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Hamrick — primary (person)
- Atkinson — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Gearheart — cosponsor (person)
- Howell — cosponsor (person)
- Moye — cosponsor (person)
- Sobonya — cosponsor (person)
- Statler — cosponsor (person)
- Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)
- Zatezalo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-01-10** To Roads and Transportation then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-01-10** To House Roads and Transportation `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-31** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2018-01-31** 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. 113) `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. 278) `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 3/27/18 - 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 224, 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/476bce5b-7587-4e8c-8407-db6c43231b6a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).