---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating the Broadband Development Fund"
description: "Creating the Broadband Development Fund"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "20213S"
identifier: "HB 339"
citation: "West Virginia HB 339 (20213S)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Espinosa"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 29
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-10-15"
last_action: "2021-11-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ab4d10a4-f14b-4c7e-a1de-1e5ee79f4851"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=339&year=2021&sessiontype=3X&btype=bill"
source_hash: "1d06e5a60fe98d15c525d63370bb19306c09c3e58bfbf3400e680970a4fb9bdc"
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 339 (20213S) — Creating the Broadband Development Fund

## 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=HB339%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=3X&i=339)
2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB339%20ORG.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=3X&i=339)

## Votes

- Passage — **26–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Espinosa — primary (person)
- Boggs — cosponsor (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Hornbuckle — cosponsor (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Linville — cosponsor (person)
- Riley — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Rowan — cosponsor (person)
- Statler — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-10-15** Originating in House Finance
- **2021-10-15** Do pass
- **2021-10-15** Immediate consideration
- **2021-10-15** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-10-20** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-10-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-10-20** Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 841)
- **2021-10-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-10-20** Passed House (Roll No. 842) `passage`
- **2021-10-20** Effective from passage (Roll No. 843)
- **2021-10-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-10-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-10-20** Immediate consideration
- **2021-10-20** Committee reference dispensed
- **2021-10-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-10-20** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 63)
- **2021-10-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-10-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-10-20** Passed Senate (Roll No. 64) `passage`
- **2021-10-20** Effective from passage (Roll No. 64)
- **2021-10-20** Communicated to House
- **2021-10-20** Completed legislative action
- **2021-10-22** To Governor 10/22/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-10-20** To Governor 10/22/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-10-20** To Governor 10-22-21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-10-22** Approved by Governor 10/22/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-10-20** Approved by Governor 10/22/21 - House Journal
- **2021-10-20** Approved by Governor 10-22-21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-11-02** Chapter 28, Acts, 3rd Extraordinary Session, 2021

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ab4d10a4-f14b-4c7e-a1de-1e5ee79f4851`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).