Legislation: batch E — CA TN VA VT WA WI WV WY

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

legislation/us/states/wv/2026/sb-490.md

@@ -0,0 +1,97 @@
+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Approving short-term training programs for eligibility for federal Workforce Pell Grants"
+description: "Approving short-term training programs for eligibility for federal Workforce Pell Grants"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2026"
+identifier: "SB 490"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 490 (2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Economic Development"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rucker"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 36
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2026-01-19"
+last_action: "2026-06-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3c9b9225-7477-4993-a7d0-4803aa1f02ac"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=490&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "dc706e0bec6327649344b74eac1826011284038d1fec0a116b0c1838fc2a555a"
+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 SB 490 (2026) — Approving short-term training programs for eligibility for federal Workforce Pell Grants
+
+## 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=sb490%20sub1.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=490)
+2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb490%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=490)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb490%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=490)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- EFFECT Jul 01, 2026 — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rucker — primary (person)
+- Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
+- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
+- Rose — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2026-01-19** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2026-01-19** To Workforce
+- **2026-01-19** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2026-01-19** To Workforce
+- **2026-02-03** Committee substitute reported
+- **2026-02-04** On 1st reading
+- **2026-02-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2026-02-05** On 2nd reading
+- **2026-02-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-02-06** On 3rd reading
+- **2026-02-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-02-06** Passed Senate (Roll No. 49) `passage`
+- **2026-02-06** Effective July 1, 2026 (Roll No. 50)
+- **2026-02-06** Ordered to House
+- **2026-02-09** House received Senate message
+- **2026-02-09** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2026-02-10** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2026-02-09** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2026-03-10** Do pass
+- **2026-03-10** Immediate consideration
+- **2026-03-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2026-03-11** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2026-03-12** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2026-03-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2026-03-12** Passed House (Roll No. 422) `passage`
+- **2026-03-13** Effective July 1, 2026 (Roll No. 423)
+- **2026-03-13** Communicated to Senate
+- **2026-03-13** Completed legislative action
+- **2026-03-13** House Message received
+- **2026-03-18** To Governor 3/18/2026 `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-03-14** To Governor 3/18/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2026-04-01** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2026-06-25** Chapter 294, 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/3c9b9225-7477-4993-a7d0-4803aa1f02ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+