---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to broadband enhancement and expansion policies generally"
description: "Relating to broadband enhancement and expansion policies generally"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 4629"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4629 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 57
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2018-02-26"
last_action: "2018-04-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/761c57b2-ada1-4d57-af2a-604476387e19"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4629&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "e392d87bbfa2d18d4b539fa70b96829b8f78acdf22fee2e0ead7d8e281be8268"
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 4629 (2018) — Relating to broadband enhancement and expansion policies generally

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4629%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4629)
2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4629%20Org.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4629)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · legislature
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Hanshaw — primary (person)
- Byrd — cosponsor (person)
- Canestraro — cosponsor (person)
- Harshbarger — cosponsor (person)
- Hollen — cosponsor (person)
- Lane — cosponsor (person)
- Miller, R. — cosponsor (person)
- Pushkin — cosponsor (person)
- Robinson — cosponsor (person)
- Sobonya — cosponsor (person)
- Zatezalo — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-26** Originating in House Judiciary
- **2018-02-26** Do pass
- **2018-02-26** Immediate consideration
- **2018-02-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-27** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-28** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-28** Passed House (Roll No. 264) `passage`
- **2018-02-28** Effective from passage (Roll No. 265)
- **2018-02-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-01** House Message received
- **2018-03-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-03-01** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-07** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-07** Immediate consideration
- **2018-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-08** On 2nd reading
- **2018-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2018-03-09** On 3rd reading
- **2018-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-09** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 453) `passage`
- **2018-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 453)
- **2018-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2018-03-10** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-10** House refused to concur; requested Senate to recede (Voice)
- **2018-03-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-10** House Message received
- **2018-03-10** Senate refused to recede; requested conference (Voice vote)
- **2018-03-10** Senate appoints conference committee: Smith, Gaunch, Jeffries
- **2018-03-10** Communicated to House
- **2018-03-10** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-10** House agreed to conference
- **2018-03-10** House appointed conferees: Hanshaw, Zatezalo, Isner
- **2018-03-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-10** To conference
- **2018-03-10** House Message received
- **2018-03-10** Conference report filed - House
- **2018-03-10** Conference report filed - Senate
- **2018-03-10** Conference report received-House
- **2018-03-10** House adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 554)
- **2018-03-10** Effective from passage (Roll No. 555)
- **2018-03-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-10** House Message received
- **2018-03-10** Senate adopted conference report and passed bill (Roll No. 524)
- **2018-03-10** Effective from passage (Roll No. 524)
- **2018-03-10** Communicated to House
- **2018-03-10** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-21** To Governor 3/21/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/21/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/21/18 - Senate 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 31, 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/761c57b2-ada1-4d57-af2a-604476387e19`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).