republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2018/hb-3005.md

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Bill	Relating to regulation of unmanned aircraft systems	Relating to regulation of unmanned aircraft systems	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2018	HB 3005	West Virginia HB 3005 (2018)	bill	Crime	enacted	Fast	4	44	3	2018-01-10	2018-04-16	openstates	ocd-bill/5546e026-f09a-45c9-893b-616c5589ba0b	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3005&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	8aec68310b93a372ca34be3c16e0124ec24e4c275cfd789eef7ee206b50f450c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 3005 (2018) — Relating to regulation of unmanned aircraft systems

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• PASSAGE — 78–18 (pass) · legislature
• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · legislature
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 88–10 (pass) · legislature

Sponsors

• Fast — primary (person)
• Gearheart — cosponsor (person)
• Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
• Kessinger — cosponsor (person)
• Overington — 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
• 2018-01-22 By substitute, do pass
• 2018-01-23 On 1st reading, House Calendar
• 2018-01-23 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-01-24 On 2nd reading, House Calendar
• 2018-01-24 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-01-25 On 3rd reading, House Calendar
• 2018-01-25 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2018-01-25 Amended on 3rd reading
• 2018-01-25 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-01-25 Motion to table bill rejected
• 2018-01-25 Passed House (Roll No. 15) passage
• 2018-01-25 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-01-26 House Message received
• 2018-01-26 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2018-01-26 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-01-26 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2018-02-28 Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment committee-passage
• 2018-03-01 On 1st reading
• 2018-03-01 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2018-03-02 On 2nd reading
• 2018-03-02 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2018-03-02 Committee Amendment Reported
• 2018-03-02 Amendment to committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-03-02 Committee amendment as amended adopted (Voice vote)
• 2018-03-03 On 3rd reading
• 2018-03-03 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2018-03-03 Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 308) passage
• 2018-03-03 Senate requests House to concur
• 2018-03-07 House received Senate message
• 2018-03-07 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 355)
• 2018-03-07 Communicated to Senate
• 2018-03-07 Completed legislative action
• 2018-03-08 House Message received
• 2018-03-16 To Governor 3/16/18 executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/16/18 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2018-03-10 To Governor 3/16/18 - 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 61, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5546e026-f09a-45c9-893b-616c5589ba0b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).