---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prohibiting West Virginia institutions of higher education from discriminating against graduates of private, nonpublic or home schools by requiring them to submit to alternative testing"
description: "Prohibiting West Virginia institutions of higher education from discriminating against graduates of private, nonpublic or home schools by requiring them to submit to alternative testing"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2529"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2529 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (Higher)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fast"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 41
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-15"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/206359b9-8470-4954-8e5c-128397018d40"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2529&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ba044cb338e3266069d5e726e6d8fa775d178aaeb0f3abbae38981bca1973028"
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 2529 (2021) — Prohibiting West Virginia institutions of higher education from discriminating against graduates of private, nonpublic or home schools by requiring them to submit to alternative testing

## 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=HB2529%20SUB.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2529)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2529%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2529)
3. **HB2529 HFAT ELLINGTON 4-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/HB2529 HFAT ELLINGTON 4-6 adopted.htm)
4. **HB2529 S ED AM _1 3-30 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB2529 S ED AM _1 3-30 adopted.htm)
5. **HB2529 S ED AMT _1 3-29 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB2529 S ED AMT _1 3-29 adopted.htm)
6. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2529%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2529)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Fast — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-15** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-02-15** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-15** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-02-15** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-23** By substitute, do pass
- **2021-02-24** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-02-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-02-26** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-02-26** Passed House (Roll No. 61) `passage`
- **2021-02-26** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-01** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-01** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-01** On 1st reading
- **2021-04-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-04-02** On 2nd reading
- **2021-04-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-02** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-04-05** On 3rd reading
- **2021-04-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-05** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 306) `passage`
- **2021-04-05** Senate requests House to concur
- **2021-04-06** House received Senate message
- **2021-04-06** House concurred in Senate amend with title amend, passed (Roll No. 438)
- **2021-04-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-04-07** House Message received
- **2021-04-07** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 340)
- **2021-04-07** Communicated to House
- **2021-04-07** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-07** House received Senate message
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/14/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/14/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-14** To Governor 4/14/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/21/21 - House Journal
- **2021-04-21** Approved by Governor 4/21/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/21/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-05-20** Chapter 157, 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/206359b9-8470-4954-8e5c-128397018d40`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).