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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to legislative rules for the Higher Education Policy Commission"
+description: "Relating to legislative rules for the Higher Education Policy Commission"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 4480"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4480 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 31
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-01-23"
+last_action: "2020-04-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e02ef72c-7476-4265-8092-2614c7586a0e"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4480&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "fb4f3ab2da5db6c01968cfe81c07c76b64ffe52d341b556e37a3e2cbb16ed1a3"
+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 4480 (2020) — Relating to legislative rules for the Higher Education Policy Commission
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4480%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4480)
+2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4480%20ORG.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4480)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ellington — primary (person)
+- Higginbotham — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-01-23** Originating in House Education
+- **2020-01-23** Do pass
+- **2020-01-24** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-01-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-01-27** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-01-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-01-28** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-01-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-01-28** Passed House (Roll No. 50) `passage`
+- **2020-01-28** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-01-29** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-01-29** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-29** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-28** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-29** On 1st reading
+- **2020-02-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-03-02** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-03** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-03** Passed Senate (Roll No. 400) `passage`
+- **2020-03-03** Communicated to House
+- **2020-03-03** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-03-03** House received Senate message
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/13/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/13/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-13** To Governor 3/13/20 `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
+- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-04-15** Chapter 214, Acts, Regular Session, 2020
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e02ef72c-7476-4265-8092-2614c7586a0e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+