republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2018/hb-2696.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Relating to crossbow hunting	Relating to crossbow hunting	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2018	HB 2696	West Virginia HB 2696 (2018)	bill	Natural Resources	enacted	Hamilton	3	41	3	2018-01-09	2018-04-16	openstates	ocd-bill/8837cc68-6a75-4111-a0cd-4d56c2c5263f	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2696&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	9e232ab38507636b7fec0374f3d9246aca8bbcc8bcde8d5a8447e0ee526c1361	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 2696 (2018) — Relating to crossbow hunting

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 — 96–0 (pass) · legislature
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 92–0 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Hamilton — primary (person)
• Eldridge — cosponsor (person)
• Evans, A. — cosponsor (person)
• Frich — cosponsor (person)
• Love — cosponsor (person)
• Romine, R. — cosponsor (person)
• Rowan — cosponsor (person)
• Wagner — cosponsor (person)
• Wilson — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-01-09 Filed for introduction filing
• 2018-01-10 To Agriculture and Natural Resources then Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-01-10 Introduced in House introduction
• 2018-01-10 To House Agriculture and Natural Resources referral-committee
• 2018-01-17 With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary committee-passage
• 2018-01-17 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. 44) 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
• 2018-02-27 Reported do pass, with amendment 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
• 2018-03-01 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-03-02 On 3rd reading
• 2018-03-02 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-03-02 Passed Senate (Roll No. 279) passage
• 2018-03-02 Senate requests House to concur
• 2018-03-03 House received Senate message
• 2018-03-03 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 292)
• 2018-03-03 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-03 Completed legislative action
• 2018-03-05 House Message received
• 2018-03-08 To Governor 3/8/18 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-08 To Governor 3/8/18 executive-receipt
• 2018-03-09 To Governor 3/8/18 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - Senate Journal
• 2018-03-10 Approved by Governor 3/22/18 - House Journal
• 2018-03-22 Approved by Governor 3/22/18 executive-signature
• 2018-04-16 Chapter 171, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8837cc68-6a75-4111-a0cd-4d56c2c5263f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).