---
type: "Bill"
title: "Clarifying the qualifications of the Chancellor of the Higher Education Policy Commission"
description: "Clarifying the qualifications of the Chancellor of the Higher Education Policy Commission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4022"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4022 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (Higher)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 40
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2020-01-08"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1fc5f156-4d47-432f-8e68-3a1d637eedf1"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4022&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "96e2d2eca2374b0c4cc332e4928e991639315b71bc3416cc5632643e0f0b6b95"
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 4022 (2020) — Clarifying the qualifications of the Chancellor of the Higher Education Policy Commission

## 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=HB4022%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4022)
2. **HB4022 SFA _1 RUCKER 3-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/HB4022 SFA _1 RUCKER 3-3 adopted.htm)
3. **HB4022 SFA _1 RUCKER 3-4 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/HB4022 SFA _1 RUCKER 3-4 adopted.htm)
4. **HB4022 SFAT _1 RUCKER 3-4 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/HB4022 SFAT _1 RUCKER 3-4 adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4022%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4022)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **97–1** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **32–2** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **99–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ellington — primary (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- Hanna — cosponsor (person)
- Higginbotham — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-08** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-08** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-08** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-08** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-10** Do pass
- **2020-01-13** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-13** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-15** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-15** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-15** Passed House (Roll No. 6) `passage`
- **2020-01-15** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-01-16** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-16** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-16** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-29** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-02** On 2nd reading
- **2020-03-02** Laid over on 2nd reading 3/2/20
- **2020-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-03** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-04** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-04** Amended on 3rd reading (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-04** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 424) `passage`
- **2020-03-04** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-05** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-05** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 545)
- **2020-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-05** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-06** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/13/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/13/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-13** To Governor 3/13/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 176, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1fc5f156-4d47-432f-8e68-3a1d637eedf1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).