republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2018/hb-2655.md

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Bill	Defining and establishing the crime of cyberbullying	Defining and establishing the crime of cyberbullying	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2018	HB 2655	West Virginia HB 2655 (2018)	bill	Courts Juveniles	enacted	Upson	3	39	3	2018-01-10	2018-04-16	openstates	ocd-bill/83380b69-01b1-4229-a113-48ca8a8e2eb7	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2655&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	3f8876df44ecd9925920eef2db05f6a5d6abf0a4695faf90779937126816e017	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 2655 (2018) — Defining and establishing the crime of cyberbullying

Version chain

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

1. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · legislature
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 85–1 (pass) · legislature
• PASSAGE — 94–1 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Upson — primary (person)
• Blair — cosponsor (person)
• Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
• Higginbotham — cosponsor (person)
• Hill — cosponsor (person)
• Householder — cosponsor (person)
• Longstreth — cosponsor (person)
• Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• Robinson — cosponsor (person)
• Sobonya — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-10 Filed for introduction filing
• 2018-01-10 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-01-10 Introduced in House introduction
• 2018-01-10 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-01-31 By substitute, do pass
• 2018-02-01 On 1st reading, House Calendar
• 2018-02-01 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-02-02 On 2nd reading, House Calendar
• 2018-02-02 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-02-05 On 3rd reading, House Calendar
• 2018-02-05 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-02-05 Passed House (Roll No. 42) passage
• 2018-02-05 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-02-06 House Message received
• 2018-02-06 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2018-02-06 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-06 To Judiciary 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. 417) passage
• 2018-03-09 Senate requests House to concur
• 2018-03-10 House received Senate message
• 2018-03-10 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 534)
• 2018-03-10 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-10 Completed legislative action
• 2018-03-10 House Message received
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/19/18 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-19 To Governor 3/19/18 executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/19/18 - 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
• 2018-04-16 Chapter 60, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/83380b69-01b1-4229-a113-48ca8a8e2eb7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).