---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to legislative rules for the Higher Education Policy Commission"
description: "Relating to legislative rules for the Higher Education Policy Commission"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4480"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4480 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 31
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-23"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e02ef72c-7476-4265-8092-2614c7586a0e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4480&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "fb4f3ab2da5db6c01968cfe81c07c76b64ffe52d341b556e37a3e2cbb16ed1a3"
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 4480 (2020) — Relating to legislative rules for 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=HB4480%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4480)
2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4480%20ORG.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4480)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-23** Originating in House Education
- **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. 50) `passage`
- **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`
- **2020-02-29** 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. 400) `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 3/13/20 - 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 214, 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/e02ef72c-7476-4265-8092-2614c7586a0e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).