---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to public higher education accountability and planning"
description: "Relating to public higher education accountability and planning"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 673"
citation: "West Virginia SB 673 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (Higher)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rucker"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 44
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-23"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1102ed2d-f70e-43cd-bd34-5ef6e288143d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=673&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "53cc37975779f86c4e0104fa46d948f592185b33fc9bd7253b9a42cdedef0e90"
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 673 (2019) — Relating to public higher education accountability and planning

## 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=SB673%20enr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=673)
2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB673%20ORG.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=673)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- RECEDE — **52–46** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **99–1** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **84–14** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rucker — primary (person)
- Azinger — cosponsor (person)
- Blair — cosponsor (person)
- Cline — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- Romano — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
- Trump — cosponsor (person)
- Unger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-23** Originating in Senate Education
- **2019-02-23** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-25** On 1st reading
- **2019-02-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-26** On 2nd reading
- **2019-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-27** On 3rd reading
- **2019-02-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-27** Passed Senate (Roll No. 285) `passage`
- **2019-02-27** Effective from passage (Roll No. 285)
- **2019-02-27** Ordered to House
- **2019-02-28** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-28** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-28** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-04** Do pass
- **2019-03-05** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-06** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-06** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-07** Placed at foot of bills
- **2019-03-07** Immediate consideration
- **2019-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** Passed House (Roll No. 568) `passage`
- **2019-03-07** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-07** Effective from passage (Roll No. 569)
- **2019-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-08** House Message received
- **2019-03-08** Senate refused to concur; requested House recede(Voice vote)
- **2019-03-08** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-09** House receded (Roll No. 672)
- **2019-03-09** Passed House (Roll No. 673) `passage`
- **2019-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **2019-03-22** To Governor 3/22/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/22/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/22/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 136, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1102ed2d-f70e-43cd-bd34-5ef6e288143d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).