---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the Hope Scholarship Program"
description: "Relating to the Hope Scholarship Program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2013"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2013 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 64
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-10"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8bde3f6e-988d-4203-98f4-a76d3bc846e5"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2013&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "0f0bedf9106712a8453d4d991748244e9be66e68e37cdd498378535ebe115ca7"
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 2013 (2021) — Relating to the Hope Scholarship Program

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment to committee amendment adopted (Roll No. 80)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2021/RS/votes/house/00080.pdf)
2. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2013%20SUB.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2013)
3. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2013%20SUB%20ENG.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2013)
4. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2013%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2013)
5. **HB2013 HFA BURKHAMMER 2-17 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/HB2013 HFA BURKHAMMER 2-17 _1 adopted.htm)
6. **HB2013 HFA ELLINGTON 2-17 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/HB2013 HFA ELLINGTON 2-17 _1 adopted.htm)
7. **HB2013 HFA ELLINGTON 3-3 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/HB2013 HFA ELLINGTON 3-3 _1 adopted.htm)
8. **HB2013 HFAT ELLINGTON 2-17 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/HB2013 HFAT ELLINGTON 2-17 adopted.htm)
9. **HB2013 HFIN AM 3-2 as amended adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB2013 HFIN AM 3-2 as amended adopted.htm)
10. **HB2013 HFIN AM 3-2MCO adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB2013 HFIN AM 3-2MCO adopted.htm)
11. **HB2013 HFIN AMT 3-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB2013 HFIN AMT 3-2 adopted.htm)
12. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2013%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2013)
13. **Second Engrossment Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2013%20SUB%20ENG2.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2013)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ellington — primary (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Hanna — cosponsor (person)
- Higginbotham — cosponsor (person)
- Horst — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries, D. — cosponsor (person)
- Kimble — cosponsor (person)
- Pinson — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Wamsley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-02-10** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-10** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-02-10** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-12** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2021-02-12** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-15** By substitute, do pass
- **2021-02-16** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-02-16** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-17** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-02-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-17** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-02-17** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 29) `amendment-failure`
- **2021-02-17** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 30) `amendment-failure`
- **2021-02-17** Amendment withdrawn (Voice vote)
- **2021-02-17** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 31) `amendment-failure`
- **2021-02-17** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-02-18** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-02-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-18** Passed House (Roll No. 33) `passage`
- **2021-02-18** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-02-19** House reconsidered its action
- **2021-02-19** House reconsidered title amendment and withdrew
- **2021-02-19** House reconsidered passage (Voice)
- **2021-02-19** Recommitted to Finance on 3rd reading
- **2021-03-02** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-03** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-03** Amendment pending
- **2021-03-04** On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-04** Amendment to committee amendment adopted (Roll No. 80)
- **2021-03-04** Amendment to committee amendment rejected (Roll No. 81)
- **2021-03-04** Amendment to committee amendment rejected (Roll No. 82)
- **2021-03-04** Amendment to committee amendment rejected (Roll No. 83)
- **2021-03-04** Amendment to committee amendment rejected (Roll No. 84)
- **2021-03-04** Amendment to committee amendment rejected (Roll No. 85)
- **2021-03-04** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-04** Passed House (Roll No. 86) `passage`
- **2021-03-04** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-03-04** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-05** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-05** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-05** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-10** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-12** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-15** On 1st reading
- **2021-03-15** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-16** On 2nd reading
- **2021-03-16** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-17** On 3rd reading
- **2021-03-17** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-17** Passed Senate (Roll No. 144) `passage`
- **2021-03-17** Communicated to House
- **2021-03-17** Completed legislative action
- **2021-03-18** House received Senate message
- **2021-03-23** To Governor 3/22/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-23** To Governor 3/22/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-22** To Governor 3/22/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/27/21 - House Journal
- **2021-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/27/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-05-20** Chapter 99, Acts, Regular Session, 2021

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8bde3f6e-988d-4203-98f4-a76d3bc846e5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).