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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to Career Technical Education for middle school students"
+description: "Relating to Career Technical Education for middle school students"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "HB 4790"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4790 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 37
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2020-02-10"
+last_action: "2020-04-15"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/28c7696a-ece9-48bf-9040-eb96505ab8fb"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4790&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "7d630f648410e9d4aac442fcb83835f805ec2dae7c2f583edef8fd31f51d94d9"
+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 4790 (2020) — Relating to Career Technical Education for middle school students
+
+## 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=HB4790%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4790)
+2. **HB4790 S ED AM _1 2-27 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4790 S ED AM _1 2-27 adopted.htm)
+3. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4790%20ORG.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4790)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **92–1** (pass) · lower
+- HFA ROBINSON 2-12 REVISED — **39–56** (fail) · lower
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **94–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ellington — primary (person)
+- Atkinson — cosponsor (person)
+- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
+- Hanna — cosponsor (person)
+- Higginbotham — cosponsor (person)
+- Hornbuckle — cosponsor (person)
+- Lavender-Bowe — cosponsor (person)
+- Thompson, R. — cosponsor (person)
+- Toney — cosponsor (person)
+- Waxman — cosponsor (person)
+- Zukoff — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-02-10** Originating in House Education
+- **2020-02-10** Do pass
+- **2020-02-11** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-12** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-12** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 162) `amendment-failure`
+- **2020-02-13** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-13** Passed House (Roll No. 179) `passage`
+- **2020-02-13** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-02-14** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2020-02-14** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-14** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-28** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-28** Immediate consideration
+- **2020-02-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-29** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-02-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-29** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-03-02** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-03-02** Laid over on 3rd reading 3/2/20
+- **2020-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-03** Passed Senate (Roll No. 411) `passage`
+- **2020-03-03** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2020-03-04** House received Senate message
+- **2020-03-04** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 487)
+- **2020-03-04** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-03-04** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-03-05** House Message received
+- **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 3/24/20 - House Journal
+- **2020-03-24** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - Senate Journal
+- **2020-04-15** Chapter 122, 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/28c7696a-ece9-48bf-9040-eb96505ab8fb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+