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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Allowing individuals who completed home schooling be eligible for PROMISE scholarship without equivalent diploma"
+description: "Allowing individuals who completed home schooling be eligible for PROMISE scholarship without equivalent diploma"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 319"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 319 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education (Higher)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rucker"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 45
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2018-01-18"
+last_action: "2018-04-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/90c2bd10-1379-41f4-9600-28edf7b0207e"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=319&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "474d4686d41e90e27199428dee4d78f31e78f583b8c5ffc6b0ed23bba0e66d80"
+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 SB 319 (2018) — Allowing individuals who completed home schooling be eligible for PROMISE scholarship without equivalent diploma
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB319%20SUB1.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=319)
+2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB319%20SUB2.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=319)
+3. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB319%20SUB2%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=319)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB319%20INTR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=319)
+
+## Votes
+
+- EFFECT JULY 1, 2018 — **96–3** (pass) · legislature
+- PASSAGE — **93–6** (pass) · legislature
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · legislature
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rucker — primary (person)
+- Azinger — cosponsor (person)
+- Boso — cosponsor (person)
+- Clements — cosponsor (person)
+- Cline — cosponsor (person)
+- Drennan — cosponsor (person)
+- Gaunch — cosponsor (person)
+- Karnes — cosponsor (person)
+- Maroney — cosponsor (person)
+- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)
+- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
+- Trump — cosponsor (person)
+- Unger — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-18** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2018-01-18** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-01-18** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2018-01-18** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-09** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
+- **2018-02-09** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-15** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
+- **2018-02-16** On 1st reading
+- **2018-02-16** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-19** On 2nd reading
+- **2018-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2018-02-20** On 3rd reading
+- **2018-02-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2018-02-20** Passed Senate (Roll No. 152) `passage`
+- **2018-02-20** Effective July 1, 2018 (Roll No. 152)
+- **2018-02-20** Ordered to House
+- **2018-02-21** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2018-02-21** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-21** To House Education `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-02** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2018-03-02** 2nd reference dispensed
+- **2018-03-03** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2018-03-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2018-03-05** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2018-03-06** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2018-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2018-03-06** Passed House (Roll No. 341) `passage`
+- **2018-03-06** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2018-03-06** Effective July 1, 2018 (Roll No. 342)
+- **2018-03-06** Communicated to Senate
+- **2018-03-07** House Message received
+- **2018-03-07** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 374)
+- **2018-03-07** Effective July 1, 2018 (Roll No. 374)
+- **2018-03-07** Communicated to House
+- **2018-03-07** Completed legislative action
+- **2018-03-08** House received Senate message
+- **2018-03-14** To Governor 3/14/18 `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/14/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/14/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/20/18 - House Journal
+- **2018-03-20** Approved by Governor 3/20/18 `executive-signature`
+- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/20/18 - Senate Journal
+- **2018-04-23** Chapter 113, Acts, Regular Session, 2018
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/90c2bd10-1379-41f4-9600-28edf7b0207e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+