---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increasing access to career education and workforce training"
description: "Increasing access to career education and workforce training"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 1"
citation: "West Virginia SB 1 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (Higher)", "Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carmichael"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 52
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2019-01-09"
last_action: "2019-04-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8fc8ede9-3c8b-46e3-ad57-38404545596a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=1&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "d8938d8f4271896c8f332d7dc97d138ec9d3b606b8409047c7b048c08e228659"
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 1 (2019) — Increasing access to career education and workforce training

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment to committee amendment adopted (Roll No. 476)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2019/RS/votes/house/00476.pdf)
2. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB1%20SUB1.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=1)
3. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB1%20SUB2.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=1)
4. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB1%20SUB2%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=1)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB1%20INTR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=1)

## Votes

- HFA SPONAUGLE 3-5 — **40–59** (fail) · lower
- HFA DISERIO 3-5 — **54–44** (pass) · lower
- HFA BUTLER 3-5 #1 — **14–81** (fail) · lower
- HFA BUTLER 3-5 #2 — **27–69** (fail) · lower
- PASSAGE — **85–13** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- HFA C. THOMPSON 3-5 #1 — **41–54** (fail) · lower
- HFA BUTLER 3-5 #3 — **36–61** (fail) · lower
- HFA DOYLE ET AL 3-5 — **43–56** (fail) · lower

## Sponsors

- Carmichael — primary (person)
- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
- Boso — cosponsor (person)
- Clements — cosponsor (person)
- Cline — cosponsor (person)
- Ihlenfeld — cosponsor (person)
- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
- Swope — cosponsor (person)
- Sypolt — cosponsor (person)
- Takubo — cosponsor (person)
- Weld — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-09** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-09** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-09** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-01-09** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-16** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
- **2019-01-16** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-18** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
- **2019-01-21** On 1st reading
- **2019-01-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-01-22** On 2nd reading
- **2019-01-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-01-22** Prezioso Floor amendments rejected (Roll No. 19)
- **2019-01-22** Plymale Floor amendment rejected (Roll No. 20)
- **2019-01-23** On 3rd reading
- **2019-01-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-01-23** Passed Senate (Roll No. 21) `passage`
- **2019-01-23** Ordered to House
- **2019-01-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-24** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-24** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-22** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2019-02-22** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-02** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-04** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-05** Amendment to committee amendment rejected (Roll No. 470)
- **2019-03-05** Amendment to committee amendment rejected (Roll No. 471)
- **2019-03-05** Amendment to committee amendment rejected (Roll No. 472)
- **2019-03-05** Amendment to committee amendment adopted (voice)
- **2019-03-05** Amendment to committee amendment rejected (Roll No. 473)
- **2019-03-05** Amendment to committee amendment rejected (Roll No. 474)
- **2019-03-05** Amendment to committee amendment rejected (Roll No. 475)
- **2019-03-05** Amendment to committee amendment adopted (Roll No. 476)
- **2019-03-05** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-06** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-03-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-06** Passed House (Roll No. 484) `passage`
- **2019-03-06** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-07** House Message received
- **2019-03-07** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 387)
- **2019-03-07** Communicated to House
- **2019-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-20** To Governor 3/20/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/20/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/20/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-04-16** Chapter 133, 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/8fc8ede9-3c8b-46e3-ad57-38404545596a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).