---
type: "Bill"
title: "Eliminate funding for the Center for Nursing and transfer its duties and authorities to the Higher Education Policy Commission."
description: "Eliminate funding for the Center for Nursing and transfer its duties and authorities to the Higher Education Policy Commission."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 5175"
citation: "West Virginia HB 5175 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (Higher)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 36
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-25"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/97632576-91a9-4ee1-ab31-c9e88f03cb6e"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5175&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "e4e4d6772c798659497008abb34b383e5a28595b1574a2f208cdfffafe5cc37e"
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 5175 (2024) — Eliminate funding for the Center for Nursing and transfer its duties and authorities to the Higher Education Policy Commission.

## 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=hb5175%20sub.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5175)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5175%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5175)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5175%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5175)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ellington — primary (person)
- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
- Longanacre — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Statler — cosponsor (person)
- Summers — cosponsor (person)
- Toney — cosponsor (person)
- Tully — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-25** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-25** To Health and Human Resources then Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-25** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-07** Do pass, but first to Education
- **2024-02-07** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-15** By substitute, do pass
- **2024-02-16** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-16** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-19** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-20** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-20** Passed House (Roll No. 236) `passage`
- **2024-02-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-21** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-21** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-27** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-27** Immediate consideration
- **2024-02-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-28** On 2nd reading
- **2024-02-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29** On 3rd reading
- **2024-02-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-29** Passed Senate (Roll No. 325) `passage`
- **2024-02-29** Communicated to House
- **2024-02-29** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-01** House received Senate message
- **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 3/27/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Chapter 201, 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/97632576-91a9-4ee1-ab31-c9e88f03cb6e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).