---
type: "Bill"
title: "Granting of college credit hours for learning English as a second language"
description: "Granting of college credit hours for learning English as a second language"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4365"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4365 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (Higher)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Higginbotham"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-16"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7c040b2c-0ac2-466e-96c1-40c62325d685"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4365&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "9c0022625b046113e29ffe974b90733afffea5441781a32f3958de6605675ad5"
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 4365 (2020) — Granting of college credit hours for learning English as a second language

## 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=HB4365%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4365)
2. **HB4365 HFAT ELLINGTON adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/HB4365 HFAT ELLINGTON adopted.htm)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4365%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4365)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Higginbotham — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- Hanna — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson, R. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-16** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-16** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-16** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** Do pass
- **2020-01-24** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-27** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-28** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-01-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-28** Passed House (Roll No. 49) `passage`
- **2020-01-28** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-01-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-01-29** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-29** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-29** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-28** Immediate consideration
- **2020-02-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-29** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-02** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-02** Passed Senate (Roll No. 374) `passage`
- **2020-03-02** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-02** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-02** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-05** To Governor 3/5/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-05** To Governor 3/5/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-05** To Governor 3/5/20 `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 178, 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/7c040b2c-0ac2-466e-96c1-40c62325d685`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).