---
type: "Bill"
title: "All relating to authorizing legislative rules regarding higher education"
description: "All relating to authorizing legislative rules regarding higher education"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2800"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2800 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (Higher)", "Rule Making Authority"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 40
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-18"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42715c0a-d539-4dec-a4f8-42f3360df3ac"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2800&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "a876366b99d2951a1f9d1d9052791284f0f496a4c35f97a19d166448e4430791"
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 2800 (2023) — All relating to authorizing legislative rules regarding higher education

## 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=hb2800%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2800)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2800%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2800)
3. **hb2800 s ed am _1 2-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/hb2800 s ed am _1 2-2 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ellington — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-18** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-18** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-18** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-18** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-24** Do pass
- **2023-01-25** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-01-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-26** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-01-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-01-27** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-01-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-01-27** Passed House (Roll No. 47) `passage`
- **2023-01-27** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-01-30** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-01-30** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-30** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-03** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-06** On 1st reading
- **2023-02-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-07** On 2nd reading
- **2023-02-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-02-08** On 3rd reading
- **2023-02-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 150) `passage`
- **2023-02-08** Effective from passage (Roll No. 150)
- **2023-02-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2023-02-15** House received Senate message
- **2023-02-15** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 145)
- **2023-02-15** Effective from passage (Roll No. 146)
- **2023-02-15** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-02-15** Completed legislative action
- **2023-02-16** House Message received
- **2023-02-20** To Governor 2/20/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-21** To Governor 2/20/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-20** To Governor 2/20/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-24** Approved by Governor 2/24/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-02-25** Approved by Governor 2/24/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-02-25** Approved by Governor 2/24/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 180, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/42715c0a-d539-4dec-a4f8-42f3360df3ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).