---
type: "Bill"
title: "Providing tuition and fee waivers at state higher education institutions for volunteers who have completed service in AmeriCorps programs in WV"
description: "Providing tuition and fee waivers at state higher education institutions for volunteers who have completed service in AmeriCorps programs in WV"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 228"
citation: "West Virginia SB 228 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (Higher)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rucker"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 37
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-12"
last_action: "2022-04-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/379605a3-eae4-45ab-b6be-1c90bd28cb26"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=228&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "2540fe72871ad97318950e0a21981178474542edc3782ae3f7d0e5f7ba5c5f77"
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 228 (2022) — Providing tuition and fee waivers at state higher education institutions for volunteers who have completed service in AmeriCorps programs in WV

## 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=SB228%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=228)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB228%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=228)

## Votes

- Passage — **31–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rucker — primary (person)
- Baldwin — cosponsor (person)
- Caputo — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
- Lindsay — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Romano — cosponsor (person)
- Stollings — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-01-12** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-01-12** Immediate consideration
- **2022-01-12** Committee reference dispensed
- **2022-01-12** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-01-12** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 35)
- **2022-01-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-01-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-01-12** Passed Senate (Roll No. 36) `passage`
- **2022-01-12** Ordered to House
- **2022-01-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-01-17** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-17** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-21** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2022-02-21** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-08** Do pass
- **2022-03-09** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-03-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-10** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-11** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-03-11** Placed on House Calendar
- **2022-03-11** On 3rd reading, House Calendar
- **2022-03-11** Placed on Special Calender
- **2022-03-11** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-11** Passed House (Roll No. 550) `passage`
- **2022-03-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-11** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-12** House Message received
- **2022-03-17** To Governor 3/17/2022 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/28/22 - Senate Journal
- **2022-04-20** Chapter 147, Acts, Regular Session, 2022

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/379605a3-eae4-45ab-b6be-1c90bd28cb26`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).