---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to WV Invests Grant Program for students at accredited community and technical college"
description: "Relating to WV Invests Grant Program for students at accredited community and technical college"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 335"
citation: "West Virginia SB 335 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (Higher)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nelson"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 39
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-18"
last_action: "2021-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c3776cf1-9fa7-4d88-b0fb-9be2179dd2a9"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=335&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "d67b7cfd7ac5a2806c9560d3c21e9e16678ce73da81e41562556d7ece53ae594"
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 335 (2021) — Relating to WV Invests Grant Program for students at accredited community and technical college

## 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=SB335%20SUB1.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=335)
2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB335%20SUB2.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=335)
3. **Engrossed Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB335%20SUB2%20ENG.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=335)
4. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB335%20SUB2%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=335)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB335%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=335)
6. **SB335 SFA _1 RUCKER 3-29 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/SB335 SFA _1 RUCKER 3-29 adopted.htm)
7. **SB335 SFAT _1 RUCKER 3-29 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/SB335 SFAT _1 RUCKER 3-29 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nelson — primary (person)
- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Martin — cosponsor (person)
- Romano — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
- Unger — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-18** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-02-18** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-18** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-02-18** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-12** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
- **2021-03-12** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-29** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
- **2021-03-29** Immediate consideration
- **2021-03-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-30** On 2nd reading
- **2021-03-30** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-30** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-03-31** On 3rd reading
- **2021-03-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-31** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 262) `passage`
- **2021-03-31** Effective July 1, 2021 (Roll No. 262)
- **2021-03-31** Ordered to House
- **2021-04-01** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-04-01** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-05** Do pass
- **2021-04-06** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-04-07** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-08** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-08** Passed House (Roll No. 512) `passage`
- **2021-04-08** Effective July 1, 2021 (Roll No. 513)
- **2021-04-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-04-08** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-09** House Message received
- **2021-04-13** To Governor 4/13/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/13/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/13/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/15/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/15/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/15/21 - House Journal
- **2021-05-24** Chapter 155, 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/c3776cf1-9fa7-4d88-b0fb-9be2179dd2a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).