---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to enrollment and costs of homeschooled or private school students at vocational schools"
description: "Relating to enrollment and costs of homeschooled or private school students at vocational schools"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 2791"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2791 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kessinger"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 32
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-26"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c43ddacd-83de-444d-a64b-944ea1833f1d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2791&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "886b191a1d859f5d708e295359bebfc5e97c4db44208dcacde39cfbb5977d4a0"
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 2791 (2021) — Relating to enrollment and costs of homeschooled or private school students at vocational schools

## 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=HB2791%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2791)
2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2791%20ORG.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=2791)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kessinger — primary (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Higginbotham — cosponsor (person)
- Horst — cosponsor (person)
- Kelly, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Kimble — cosponsor (person)
- Longanacre — cosponsor (person)
- Tully — cosponsor (person)
- Wamsley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-26** Originating in House Education
- **2021-02-26** Do pass
- **2021-03-01** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-02** Amendment rejected (Voice vote) `amendment-failure`
- **2021-03-03** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-03** Passed House (Roll No. 75) `passage`
- **2021-03-03** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-04** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-04** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-04** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-31** Reported do pass `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`
- **2021-04-05** On 3rd reading
- **2021-04-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-05** Passed Senate (Roll No. 311) `passage`
- **2021-04-05** Communicated to House
- **2021-04-05** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-05** 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 4/15/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/15/21 - House Journal
- **2021-04-15** Approved by Governor 4/15/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-20** Chapter 101, 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/c43ddacd-83de-444d-a64b-944ea1833f1d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).