---
type: "Bill"
title: "Creating State Advisory Council on Postsecondary Attainment Goals"
description: "Creating State Advisory Council on Postsecondary Attainment Goals"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 839"
citation: "West Virginia SB 839 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (Higher)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roberts"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-02-20"
last_action: "2020-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b394d99-00ce-4a0d-a561-9c400bd40c0e"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=839&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "303e4312192cd2daa34dbd506c86d05e494d945fbf59f29a6297b3196f68dbc0"
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 SB 839 (2020) — Creating State Advisory Council on Postsecondary Attainment Goals

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb839%20ENG.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=839)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb839%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=839)
3. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb839%20org.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=839)
4. **SB839 H ED AM _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/SB839 H ED AM _1 adopted.htm)
5. **SB839 SFA _1 PLYMALE 2-26 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB839 SFA _1 PLYMALE 2-26 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Roberts — primary (person)
- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
- Boley — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)
- Tarr — cosponsor (person)
- Weld — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-20** Originating in Senate Workforce
- **2020-02-20** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-21** On 1st reading
- **2020-02-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-24** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-25** On 3rd reading
- **2020-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-25** Laid over on 3rd reading 2/25/20
- **2020-02-26** Amended on 3rd reading (Voice vote)
- **2020-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-26** Passed Senate (Roll No. 331) `passage`
- **2020-02-26** Ordered to House
- **2020-02-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-02-27** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-27** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-02** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-03-03** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-04** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-04** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 590) `passage`
- **2020-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 604)
- **2020-03-07** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-19** To Governor 3/19/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
- **2020-04-14** Chapter 175, 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/4b394d99-00ce-4a0d-a561-9c400bd40c0e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).