---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating a new category of Innovation in Education grant program"
description: "Creating a new category of Innovation in Education grant program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2009"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2009 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hamrick"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 45
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-01-14"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19cd340a-169e-41e5-b6ce-73f8de5a326f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2009&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "c7fb5795b84ca712ee300dd43eefb579fc84a6826148203e95637f6c3827e58f"
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 2009 (2019) — Creating a new category of Innovation in Education grant program

## 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=hb2009%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2009)
2. **HB2009 S FIN AM _2 3-1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/HB2009 S FIN AM _2 3-1 adopted.htm)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2009%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2009)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hamrick — primary (person)
- Cadle — cosponsor (person)
- Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- Dean — cosponsor (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-15** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-15** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-15** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-22** Do pass
- **2019-01-23** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-01-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-01-25** Passed House (Roll No. 23) `passage`
- **2019-01-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-01-28** House Message received
- **2019-01-28** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-28** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-28** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** Reported do pass, with amendments, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-27** Motion
- **2019-02-27** Referred to Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-02** Reported do pass, with amendments `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-04** On 1st reading
- **2019-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-05** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-05** Education Committee amendments withdrawn by unanimous consent
- **2019-03-05** Finance Committee amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-06** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-06** Passed Senate (Roll No. 373) `passage`
- **2019-03-06** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-06** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-06** House refused to concur; requested Senate to recede (Voice)
- **2019-03-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-07** House Message received
- **2019-03-07** Senate receded and passed (Roll No. 392)
- **2019-03-07** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-25** To Governor 3/25/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 98, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19cd340a-169e-41e5-b6ce-73f8de5a326f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).