---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing a summer youth intern pilot program within Department of Commerce"
description: "Establishing a summer youth intern pilot program within Department of Commerce"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4519"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4519 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Economic Development", "Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Espinosa"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 38
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-23"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d94e2fc9-2aa3-4bbb-854c-a5676e8b8ef8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4519&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ca9b265526be201a6bb92fc3033742b14b52b65c5216ade38765b03a7c75e6d6"
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 4519 (2020) — Establishing a summer youth intern pilot program within Department of Commerce

## 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=HB4519%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4519)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4519%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4519)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **95–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

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

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-23** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-23** To Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development then Education
- **2020-01-23** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-23** To House Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-06** Do pass, but first to Education
- **2020-02-06** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-13** Do pass
- **2020-02-14** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-17** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-17** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-18** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-18** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-18** Passed House (Roll No. 224) `passage`
- **2020-02-18** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-19** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-19** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-19** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-28** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-02** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-02** Immediate consideration
- **2020-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-03** On 2nd reading
- **2020-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-04** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-04** Passed Senate (Roll No. 432) `passage`
- **2020-03-04** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-04** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-05** 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 3/24/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-24** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 120, 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/d94e2fc9-2aa3-4bbb-854c-a5676e8b8ef8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).