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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Permitting county boards to offer elective courses of instruction on the Bible"
+description: "Permitting county boards to offer elective courses of instruction on the Bible"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 4780"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4780 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bartlett"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 34
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2020-02-10"
+last_action: "2020-04-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc782d33-8871-42df-8b89-c793c94fd1af"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4780&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "1af920c788aad5e0e16389f6c5806864944b53dcb1b94712bd54f263f833d6bc"
+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 4780 (2020) — Permitting county boards to offer elective courses of instruction on the Bible
+
+## 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=HB4780%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4780)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4780%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4780)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4780%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4780)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **73–26** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **30–3** (pass) · upper
+- HFA PUSHKIN & DOYLE 2-24 — **45–53** (fail) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bartlett — primary (person)
+- Butler — cosponsor (person)
+- Dean — cosponsor (person)
+- Fast — cosponsor (person)
+- Foster — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
+- Martin, C. — cosponsor (person)
+- Martin, P. — cosponsor (person)
+- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)
+- Rodighiero — cosponsor (person)
+- Waxman — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-02-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2020-02-10** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2020-02-10** To House Education `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-20** By substitute, do pass
+- **2020-02-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-24** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 304) `amendment-failure`
+- **2020-02-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-25** Passed House (Roll No. 321) `passage`
+- **2020-02-25** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-03-02** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-03-02** Immediate consideration
+- **2020-03-02** Committee reference dispensed
+- **2020-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-03-03** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-03** Floor amendment rejected (Roll No. 414)
+- **2020-03-04** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-04** Passed Senate (Roll No. 443) `passage`
+- **2020-03-04** Communicated to House
+- **2020-03-04** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-03-05** House received Senate message
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-19** To Governor 3/19/20 `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
+- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
+- **2020-04-15** Chapter 121, 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/bc782d33-8871-42df-8b89-c793c94fd1af`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+