---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increasing the amount of the bond required to be posted by proprietary schools"
description: "Increasing the amount of the bond required to be posted by proprietary schools"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4077"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4077 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (Higher)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Higginbotham"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-09"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e50d5e67-674e-441a-b240-1abdce89856e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4077&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "237440bbc68194ef2a860328af663fa673bffb70c1518af228d04defc67dec81"
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 4077 (2020) — Increasing the amount of the bond required to be posted by proprietary schools

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4077%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4077)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4077%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4077)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4077%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4077)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Higginbotham — primary (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-09** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-09** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-09** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-09** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-17** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-01-20** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-22** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-22** Passed House (Roll No. 25) `passage`
- **2020-01-22** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-01-23** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-23** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-28** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2020-02-29** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-02** On 2nd reading
- **2020-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-03** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-03** Passed Senate (Roll No. 391) `passage`
- **2020-03-03** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-03** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-03** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/12/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-12** To Governor 3/12/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/12/20 - House Journal `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 177, 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/e50d5e67-674e-441a-b240-1abdce89856e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).