---
type: "Bill"
title: "Including Potomac State College of West Virginia in the definition of community and technical college education program for participation in the “Learn and Earn Program”"
description: "Including Potomac State College of West Virginia in the definition of community and technical college education program for participation in the “Learn and Earn Program”"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "20231S"
identifier: "HB 144"
citation: "West Virginia HB 144 (20231S)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (Higher)", "Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 27
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-08-06"
last_action: "2023-08-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d29d5600-71b6-4cb5-a696-03bef7d2c76d"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=144&year=2023&sessiontype=1X&btype=bill"
source_hash: "c0d7add39121344b8c31eeb905d02172e2a4d4f6f8668278acd3722f22bdd819"
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 144 (20231S) — Including Potomac State College of West Virginia in the definition of community and technical college education program for participation in the “Learn and Earn Program”

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb144%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=1X&i=144)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb144%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=1X&i=144)

## Votes

- Passage — **31–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hanshaw — primary (person)
- Howell — cosponsor (person)
- Skaff — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-08-06** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-08-06** Immediate consideration
- **2023-08-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-08-06** Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 813)
- **2023-08-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-08-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-08-06** Passed House (Roll No. 814) `passage`
- **2023-08-06** Effective from passage (Roll No. 815)
- **2023-08-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-08-08** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-08-08** Committee reference dispensed
- **2023-08-08** Immediate consideration
- **2023-08-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-08-08** Constitutional Rule Suspended (Roll No. 102)
- **2023-08-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-08-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-08-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 103) `passage`
- **2023-08-08** Effective from passage (Roll No. 103)
- **2023-08-08** Communicated to House
- **2023-08-08** Completed legislative action
- **2023-08-10** To Governor 8/10/23 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-08-08** To Governor 8/10/23 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-08-08** To Governor 8/10/23 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-08-08** Approved by Governor 8/22/23 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-08-22** Approved by Governor 8/22/23 `executive-signature`
- **2023-08-08** Approved by Governor 8/22/23 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-08-28** Chapter 33, Acts, 1st Extraordinary 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/d29d5600-71b6-4cb5-a696-03bef7d2c76d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).