---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to authorizing legislative rules regarding higher education"
description: "Relating to authorizing legislative rules regarding higher education"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 4622"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4622 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Espinosa"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-15"
last_action: "2018-04-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fae27fb5-95ff-48cf-ac0e-0108b8871d23"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4622&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "bd97ab8efb67aff8227198fe1a50c9c383e70d3e012a1c49fe0b7d57505ff558"
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 4622 (2018) — Relating to authorizing legislative rules regarding higher education

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4622%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4622)
2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4622%20org.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=4622)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **93–2** (pass) · legislature
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Espinosa — primary (person)
- Evans, E. — cosponsor (person)
- Hicks — cosponsor (person)
- Higginbotham — cosponsor (person)
- Hornbuckle — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly — cosponsor (person)
- Pyles — cosponsor (person)
- Rodighiero — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Statler — cosponsor (person)
- Upson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-02-15** Originating in House Education
- **2018-02-15** Do pass
- **2018-02-16** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-16** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-19** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-20** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-02-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-20** Passed House (Roll No. 174) `passage`
- **2018-02-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-02-21** House Message received
- **2018-02-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-21** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-21** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2018-03-03** On 1st reading
- **2018-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-05** On 2nd reading
- **2018-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-06** On 3rd reading
- **2018-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-06** Passed Senate (Roll No. 370) `passage`
- **2018-03-06** Communicated to House
- **2018-03-06** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/15/18 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-15** To Governor 3/15/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-15** To Governor 3/15/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/20/18 - House Journal
- **2018-03-20** Approved by Governor 3/20/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/20/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-04-17** Chapter 115, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fae27fb5-95ff-48cf-ac0e-0108b8871d23`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).