---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the Promise Scholarship"
description: "Relating to the Promise Scholarship"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 4919"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4919 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (Higher)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Riley"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-18"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/649ca68a-a8cd-415e-a320-4944ded4e5b7"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4919&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "435c94a363ea4c4fade5fbbcdec41930e6a06ce20cd8e6b02b6c8e4fc6e06115"
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 4919 (2024) — Relating to the Promise Scholarship

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4919%20sub.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4919)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4919%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4919)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4919%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4919)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Riley — primary (person)
- Dittman — cosponsor (person)
- Griffith — cosponsor (person)
- Hornbuckle — cosponsor (person)
- Horst — cosponsor (person)
- Hott — cosponsor (person)
- Linville — cosponsor (person)
- Maynor — cosponsor (person)
- Mazzocchi — cosponsor (person)
- Toney — cosponsor (person)
- Westfall — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-18** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-18** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-18** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-18** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-08** Do pass, but first to Finance
- **2024-02-08** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** By substitute, do pass
- **2024-02-24** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-26** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-27** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-27** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-28** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Passed House (Roll No. 359) `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-29** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-29** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-05** Immediate consideration
- **2024-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-03-06** On 2nd reading
- **2024-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-07** On 3rd reading
- **2024-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-07** Passed Senate (Roll No. 412) `passage`
- **2024-03-07** Communicated to House
- **2024-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-21** To Governor 3/21/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/24 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Chapter 162, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/649ca68a-a8cd-415e-a320-4944ded4e5b7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).