---
type: "Bill"
title: "To permit the county commission to appoint a county commissioner to a convention and visitor’s bureau as a voting member"
description: "To permit the county commission to appoint a county commissioner to a convention and visitor’s bureau as a voting member"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 5063"
citation: "West Virginia HB 5063 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions", "Counties"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cannon, D."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-02-03"
last_action: "2026-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6f2624f3-4d0d-48dc-b1e6-5eb9102a86a5"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5063&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "9798fef43177fa57bcea440c0bfcf0f2ceaff49bb6515c6821dd956d0ae919ba"
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 5063 (2026) — To permit the county commission to appoint a county commissioner to a convention and visitor’s bureau as a voting member

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5063%20sub1.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=5063)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5063%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=5063)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5063%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=5063)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5063%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=5063)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **84–8** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cannon, D. — primary (person)
- McGeehan — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-03** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2026-02-03** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-03** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2026-02-03** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-06** To House Local Governments `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-26** By substitute, do pass
- **2026-02-27** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-02-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-03** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-03** Passed House (Roll No. 262) `passage`
- **2026-03-03** Communicated to Senate
- **2026-03-04** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2026-03-04** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-04** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-10** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-10** Immediate consideration
- **2026-03-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-03-11** On 2nd reading
- **2026-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-12** On 3rd reading
- **2026-03-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-12** Passed Senate (Roll No. 501) `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Communicated to House
- **2026-03-12** Completed legislative action
- **2026-03-13** House received Senate message
- **2026-03-14** To Governor 3/25/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-25** To Governor 3/25/2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-14** Became law without Governor's signature - Senate Journal
- **2026-04-02** Became law 4/2/2026
- **2026-03-14** Became law without Governor's signature- House Journal
- **2026-06-29** Chapter 165, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6f2624f3-4d0d-48dc-b1e6-5eb9102a86a5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).