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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Guaranteed course transfer bill"
+description: "Guaranteed course transfer bill"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 3024"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 3024 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education (Higher)", "Education (K12)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 39
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-02-27"
+last_action: "2025-07-31"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16fa4895-0943-4ab0-b0e5-cb6d9ca0427e"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3024&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "668111efd53c629026822f7eb515c63c0588652a9786db148c85bedf02ce49de"
+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 3024 (2025) — Guaranteed course transfer bill
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3024%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3024)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3024%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3024)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3024%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3024)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3024%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3024)
+5. **hb3024 s ed am _1 4-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb3024%20s%20ed%20am%20_1%204-3%20adopted.htm)
+6. **hb3024 sfat grady _1 4-8 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb3024%20sfat%20grady%20_1%204-8%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ellington — primary (person)
+- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
+- Clark, T. — cosponsor (person)
+- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
+- Mallow — cosponsor (person)
+- Shamblin — cosponsor (person)
+- Statler — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephens — cosponsor (person)
+- Toney — cosponsor (person)
+- Ward — cosponsor (person)
+- Willis — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-27** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-27** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-02-27** To House Education `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-17** By substitute, 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. 125) `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, with amendment `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`
+- **2025-04-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-04-08** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-04-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 372) `passage`
+- **2025-04-08** Title amendment adopted
+- **2025-04-08** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2025-04-10** House received Senate message
+- **2025-04-10** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 490)
+- **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`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-30** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-07-31** Chapter 147, 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/16fa4895-0943-4ab0-b0e5-cb6d9ca0427e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+