---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing the West Virginia Program for Open Education Resources"
description: "Establishing the West Virginia Program for Open Education Resources"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2853"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2853 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (Higher)", "Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Higginbotham"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2019-02-06"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c588271d-ddfd-41e4-ac16-dfa178e4a94d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2853&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "10d5e10cf4277d096ea2467b10bfdb9f6f4ce0e0140b8e44952028d647463779"
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 2853 (2019) — Establishing the West Virginia Program for Open Education Resources

## 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=hb2853%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2853)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2853%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2853)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Higginbotham — primary (person)
- Atkinson — cosponsor (person)
- Bibby — cosponsor (person)
- Byrd — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Queen — cosponsor (person)
- Skaff — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-06** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-02-06** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-06** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-02-06** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22** Do pass
- **2019-02-22** Immediate consideration
- **2019-02-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-26** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-26** Passed House (Roll No. 326) `passage`
- **2019-02-26** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-02-26** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-27** House Message received
- **2019-02-27** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-27** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-27** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-02** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-02** Immediate consideration
- **2019-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-02** On 2nd reading to Finance
- **2019-03-05** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-06** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-07** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 400) `passage`
- **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 3/26/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 168, 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/c588271d-ddfd-41e4-ac16-dfa178e4a94d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).