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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Providing for a program of instruction in workforce preparedness"
+description: "Providing for a program of instruction in workforce preparedness"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2019"
+identifier: "HB 2004"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2004 (2019)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education (Higher)", "Education (K12)", "Labor"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Espinosa"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2019-01-14"
+last_action: "2019-04-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6e727a6f-497a-4fc7-9807-188bad88810e"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2004&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "a425defcdfaa882ae711a3b75164e2bb5eb2df37fb53b776ec9a780dad64e250"
+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 2004 (2019) — Providing for a program of instruction in workforce preparedness
+
+## 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=HB2004%20SUB.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2004)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2004%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2004)
+3. **HB2004 S ED AMT _1 3-5 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2004 S ED AMT _1 3-5 adopted.htm)
+4. **HB2004 SFA _1 RUCKER 3-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/floor_amends/HB2004 SFA _1 RUCKER 3-7 adopted.htm)
+5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2004%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2004)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **95–1** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- HFA ROBINSON 2-4 — **39–56** (fail) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Espinosa — primary (person)
+- Dean — cosponsor (person)
+- Foster — cosponsor (person)
+- Graves — cosponsor (person)
+- Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
+- Hanna — cosponsor (person)
+- Harshbarger — cosponsor (person)
+- Howell — cosponsor (person)
+- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)
+- Worrell — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-01-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2019-01-14** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-14** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2019-01-14** To House Education `referral-committee`
+- **2019-01-31** By substitute, do pass
+- **2019-02-01** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-02-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-04** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-02-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-02-04** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 71) `amendment-failure`
+- **2019-02-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2019-02-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-02-05** Passed House (Roll No. 78) `passage`
+- **2019-02-05** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-02-06** House Message received
+- **2019-02-06** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2019-02-06** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2019-02-06** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-05** Reported do pass, with amendments and title amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2019-03-06** On 1st reading
+- **2019-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2019-03-07** On 2nd reading
+- **2019-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2019-03-07** Committee amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
+- **2019-03-07** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2019-03-08** On 3rd reading
+- **2019-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2019-03-08** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 423) `passage`
+- **2019-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2019-03-08** House received Senate message
+- **2019-03-08** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 653)
+- **2019-03-08** Communicated to Senate
+- **2019-03-08** Completed legislative action
+- **2019-03-09** House Message received
+- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-25** To Governor 3/25/19 `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
+- **2019-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 `executive-signature`
+- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
+- **2019-04-11** Chapter 97, Acts, Regular Session, 2019
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6e727a6f-497a-4fc7-9807-188bad88810e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+