---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring higher education institutions to use previous versions or editions of instructional materials"
description: "Requiring higher education institutions to use previous versions or editions of instructional materials"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4729"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4729 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (Higher)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Linville"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 34
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-06"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/86ce9f3f-ffa6-4806-b197-4b9a4aed9355"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4729&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "8d5163c2b2cadf03bf75ebc6ee8871089b29549dd9e273709caf133247ba5b1a"
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 4729 (2020) — Requiring higher education institutions to use previous versions or editions of instructional materials

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4729%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4729)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4729%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4729)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4729%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4729)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Linville — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Foster — cosponsor (person)
- Graves — cosponsor (person)
- Hanna — cosponsor (person)
- Higginbotham — cosponsor (person)
- Maynard — cosponsor (person)
- McGeehan — cosponsor (person)
- Pack — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-06** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-02-06** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-06** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-02-06** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-02-14** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-17** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-18** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-18** Passed House (Roll No. 227) `passage`
- **2020-02-18** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-19** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-19** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-19** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-29** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-02** On 2nd reading
- **2020-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-03** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-03** Passed Senate (Roll No. 409) `passage`
- **2020-03-03** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-03** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-03** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/13/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/13/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-13** To Governor 3/13/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 180, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/86ce9f3f-ffa6-4806-b197-4b9a4aed9355`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).