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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Creating State Advisory Council on Postsecondary Attainment Goals"
+description: "Creating State Advisory Council on Postsecondary Attainment Goals"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2020"
+identifier: "SB 839"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 839 (2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education (Higher)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Roberts"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 37
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2020-02-20"
+last_action: "2020-04-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b394d99-00ce-4a0d-a561-9c400bd40c0e"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=839&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "303e4312192cd2daa34dbd506c86d05e494d945fbf59f29a6297b3196f68dbc0"
+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 839 (2020) — Creating State Advisory Council on Postsecondary Attainment Goals
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb839%20ENG.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=839)
+2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb839%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=839)
+3. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb839%20org.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=839)
+4. **SB839 H ED AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/SB839 H ED AM _1 adopted.htm)
+5. **SB839 SFA _1 PLYMALE 2-26 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB839 SFA _1 PLYMALE 2-26 adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Roberts — primary (person)
+- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
+- Boley — cosponsor (person)
+- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
+- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
+- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
+- Weld — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2020-02-20** Originating in Senate Workforce
+- **2020-02-20** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2020-02-21** On 1st reading
+- **2020-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-02-24** On 2nd reading
+- **2020-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-02-25** On 3rd reading
+- **2020-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-25** Laid over on 3rd reading 2/25/20
+- **2020-02-26** Amended on 3rd reading (Voice vote)
+- **2020-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-02-26** Passed Senate (Roll No. 331) `passage`
+- **2020-02-26** Ordered to House
+- **2020-02-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2020-02-27** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2020-02-27** To House Education `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-02** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2020-03-03** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2020-03-04** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2020-03-04** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2020-03-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2020-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 590) `passage`
+- **2020-03-05** Communicated to Senate
+- **2020-03-07** House Message received
+- **2020-03-07** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 604)
+- **2020-03-07** Communicated to House
+- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
+- **2020-03-19** To Governor 3/19/20 `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
+- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
+- **2020-04-14** Chapter 175, 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/4b394d99-00ce-4a0d-a561-9c400bd40c0e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+