---
type: "Bill"
title: "Redesignating Educational Broadcasting Authority as Educational Broadcasting Commission"
description: "Redesignating Educational Broadcasting Authority as Educational Broadcasting Commission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 844"
citation: "West Virginia SB 844 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance and Administration"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Woodrum"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 38
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-19"
last_action: "2024-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/70d5ec7e-e922-4488-935a-996b97a4536c"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=844&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "b95b8b09c71ff472fcd5d7fb9b37fe38612fe99620c14fd9bf3f6d6d03e8171b"
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 844 (2024) — Redesignating Educational Broadcasting Authority as Educational Broadcasting Commission

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb844%20sub1.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=844)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb844%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=844)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb844%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=844)

## Votes

- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **80–11** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **30–4** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **79–12** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Woodrum — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-19** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-02-19** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-19** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-19** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-21** Committee substitute reported
- **2024-02-21** Immediate consideration
- **2024-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-22** On 2nd reading
- **2024-02-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-23** On 3rd reading
- **2024-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-23** Passed Senate (Roll No. 229) `passage`
- **2024-02-23** Ordered to House
- **2024-02-26** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-02-26** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01** Do pass
- **2024-03-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-03-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-06** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-06** Passed House (Roll No. 510) `passage`
- **2024-03-06** Effective from passage (Roll No. 511)
- **2024-03-06** House requests Senate to concur in changed effective date
- **2024-03-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-07** House Message received
- **2024-03-07** Senate concurred in House changed effective date
- **2024-03-07** Effective from passage (Roll No. 402)
- **2024-03-07** Communicated to House
- **2024-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-11** To Governor 3/11/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/11/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/11/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-23** Chapter 146, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/70d5ec7e-e922-4488-935a-996b97a4536c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).