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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Higher Ed Rules"
+description: "Higher Ed Rules"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 2773"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2773 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Rules"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-02-21"
+last_action: "2025-07-31"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f52290d6-5184-4a70-a568-6c9e7b1cc8f5"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2773&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "572fbc4978afab32b5b21a876cca3ff981b4ea571da10482eca0b86a6f212e7f"
+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 2773 (2025) — Higher Ed Rules
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2773%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2773)
+2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2773%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2773)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2773%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2773)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ellington — primary (person)
+- Clark, T. — cosponsor (person)
+- Crouse — cosponsor (person)
+- Dittman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
+- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
+- Mallow — cosponsor (person)
+- Pritt — cosponsor (person)
+- Statler — cosponsor (person)
+- Toney — cosponsor (person)
+- Willis — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-21** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-21** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-21** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-02-21** To House Education `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-26** To House Higher Education `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-11** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-03-11** To House Education `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-17** Do pass
+- **2025-03-18** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-19** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-20** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-20** Passed House (Roll No. 124) `passage`
+- **2025-03-20** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-03-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-03-21** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-21** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-04** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-04** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-04-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-07** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-08** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-04-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 367) `passage`
+- **2025-04-08** Effective from passage (Roll No. 368)
+- **2025-04-08** Senate requests House to concur in changed effective date
+- **2025-04-10** House received Senate message
+- **2025-04-10** House concurred in Senate effective date (Roll No. 452)
+- **2025-04-10** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-10** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-04-11** House Message received
+- **2025-04-15** To Governor 4/15/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/15/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/15/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-25** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-07-31** Chapter 146, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f52290d6-5184-4a70-a568-6c9e7b1cc8f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+