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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to revising, updating and streamlining the requirements governing the West Virginia Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarship."
+description: "Relating to revising, updating and streamlining the requirements governing the West Virginia Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarship."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2024"
+identifier: "HB 5153"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 5153 (2024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education (Higher)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 32
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2024-01-25"
+last_action: "2024-04-22"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bdddc94d-f44f-4f90-a5c5-041f32265e3e"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5153&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "6d62b73873d8a8cec5a0f63b4e95b88655ea05c02d802db995048f1aaf57e800"
+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 5153 (2024) — Relating to revising, updating and streamlining the requirements governing the West Virginia Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarship.
+
+## 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=hb5153%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5153)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5153%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5153)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ellington — primary (person)
+- Clark, W. — cosponsor (person)
+- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
+- Longanacre — cosponsor (person)
+- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
+- Statler — cosponsor (person)
+- Toney — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-01-25** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2024-01-25** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2024-01-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2024-01-25** 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`
+- **2024-02-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2024-02-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-07** Passed House (Roll No. 113) `passage`
+- **2024-02-07** Communicated to Senate
+- **2024-02-08** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2024-02-08** Committee reference dispensed
+- **2024-02-09** On 1st reading
+- **2024-02-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2024-02-12** On 2nd reading
+- **2024-02-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2024-02-13** On 3rd reading
+- **2024-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2024-02-13** Passed Senate (Roll No. 128) `passage`
+- **2024-02-13** Communicated to House
+- **2024-02-13** Completed legislative action
+- **2024-02-14** House received Senate message
+- **2024-02-23** To Governor 2/23/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-02-23** To Governor 2/23/2024 `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-02-23** To Governor 2/23/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2024-03-01** Approved by Governor 2/29/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-01** Approved by Governor 2/29/2024 `executive-signature`
+- **2024-03-01** Approved by Governor 2/29/2024 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2024-04-22** Chapter 163, 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/bdddc94d-f44f-4f90-a5c5-041f32265e3e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+