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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to the timing of payments of annually required deposit into an eligible recipient’s Hope Scholarship account"
+description: "Relating to the timing of payments of annually required deposit into an eligible recipient’s Hope Scholarship account"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "HB 5686"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 5686 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Criss"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 42
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2026-02-27"
+last_action: "2026-06-29"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3db23d68-d4d5-403d-9a20-10c52c6e4941"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5686&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "385272a394124a2dcf560166b5b6763482626502cb3dce81cd897a122fbe3348"
+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 5686 (2026) — Relating to the timing of payments of annually required deposit into an eligible recipient’s Hope Scholarship account
+
+## 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=hb5686%20eng.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=5686)
+2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5686%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=5686)
+3. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5686%20org.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=5686)
+4. **hb5686 sfa barrett _1 3-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/floor_amends/hb5686%20sfa%20barrett%20_1%203-9%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **96–1** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- HFA HORNBUCKLE 3-3 #1 — **14–74** (fail) · lower
+- PASSAGE — **91–1** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Criss — primary (person)
+- Fehrenbacher — cosponsor (person)
+- Gearheart — cosponsor (person)
+- Hornbuckle — cosponsor (person)
+- Hott — cosponsor (person)
+- Riley — cosponsor (person)
+- Worrell — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-02-27** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2026-02-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2026-02-27** Originating in House Finance
+- **2026-02-27** Do pass
+- **2026-03-02** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2026-03-03** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-03** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2026-03-03** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 276) `amendment-failure`
+- **2026-03-03** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2026-03-03** Amendment ruled not germane
+- **2026-03-04** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-04** Passed House (Roll No. 340) `passage`
+- **2026-03-04** Communicated to Senate
+- **2026-03-05** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2026-03-05** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-05** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-06** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2026-03-06** Immediate consideration
+- **2026-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2026-03-09** On 2nd reading
+- **2026-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-09** Committee amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
+- **2026-03-09** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2026-03-10** On 3rd reading
+- **2026-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-10** Passed Senate (Roll No. 418) `passage`
+- **2026-03-10** Comm. title amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
+- **2026-03-10** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2026-03-14** House received Senate message
+- **2026-03-14** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 700)
+- **2026-03-14** Communicated to Senate
+- **2026-03-14** Completed legislative action
+- **2026-03-14** House Message received
+- **2026-03-14** To Governor 3/25/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-25** To Governor 3/25/26 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/27/2026 `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 3/27/2026 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 3/27/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2026-06-29** Chapter 129, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3db23d68-d4d5-403d-9a20-10c52c6e4941`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+