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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Patriotic Access to Students in Schools Act"
+description: "Patriotic Access to Students in Schools Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 4863"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4863 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Espinosa"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 40
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2024-01-17"
+last_action: "2024-04-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0b91e3e5-1829-4216-907f-bacf058b4102"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4863&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "f63dbe36317095cc12a4821fa14c439a17732c0b4d3743b98fecee87fa379a56"
+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 4863 (2024) — Patriotic Access to Students in Schools Act
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4863%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4863)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4863%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4863)
+3. **hb4863 s ed am _1 3-5 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/hb4863%20s%20ed%20am%20_1%203-5%20adopted.htm)
+4. **hb4863 sfa clements _1 3-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/hb4863%20sfa%20clements%20_1%203-7%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **94–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Espinosa — primary (person)
+- Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
+- Clark, W. — cosponsor (person)
+- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
+- Hillenbrand — cosponsor (person)
+- Hite — cosponsor (person)
+- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
+- Householder — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2024-01-17** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2024-01-17** To House Education `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-02** Do pass
+- **2024-02-05** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-02-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-06** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-02-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-06** Amendment rejected (Voice vote) `amendment-failure`
+- **2024-02-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-02-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-07** Passed House (Roll No. 109) `passage`
+- **2024-02-07** Communicated to Senate
+- **2024-02-08** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2024-02-08** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2024-02-08** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2024-03-06** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2024-03-06** Immediate consideration
+- **2024-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-03-07** On 2nd reading
+- **2024-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-03-08** On 3rd reading with right to amend
+- **2024-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-03-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2024-03-08** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2024-03-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 438) `passage`
+- **2024-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2024-03-08** House received Senate message
+- **2024-03-08** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 695)
+- **2024-03-08** Communicated to Senate
+- **2024-03-08** Completed legislative action
+- **2024-03-09** House Message received
+- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-21** To Governor 3/21/2024 `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-22** Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2024-04-22** Chapter 112, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0b91e3e5-1829-4216-907f-bacf058b4102`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+