---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing the registered apprenticeship to associate of applied science program to be administered by the Council for Community and Technical College Education"
description: "Establishing the registered apprenticeship to associate of applied science program to be administered by the Council for Community and Technical College Education"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 5435"
citation: "West Virginia HB 5435 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (Higher)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rohrbach"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 41
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-02"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d41f0ee6-0405-44b6-ad48-d35ad15243fa"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5435&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "16d499ffb5c5dc2c8ee52f9e0906eaaf5db2c3a040084ffcfab95aeccaedebc7"
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 5435 (2024) — Establishing the registered apprenticeship to associate of applied science program to be administered by the Council for Community and Technical College Education

## 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=hb5435%20sub.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5435)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5435%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5435)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5435%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5435)
4. **hb5435 s ed amt _1 3-5 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/hb5435%20s%20ed%20amt%20_1%203-5%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **91–5** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **92–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Rohrbach — primary (person)
- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Criss — cosponsor (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Green — cosponsor (person)
- Maynor — cosponsor (person)
- Moore — cosponsor (person)
- Statler — cosponsor (person)
- T — cosponsor (person)
- Winzenreid — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-02** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-02-02** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-02-02** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-08** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-08** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22** By substitute, do pass
- **2024-02-23** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-26** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-27** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-27** Passed House (Roll No. 333) `passage`
- **2024-02-27** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-28** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-28** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05** Reported do pass, with title amendment, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-05** Immediate consideration
- **2024-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-03-05** On 2nd reading to Finance
- **2024-03-06** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2024-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-08** On 3rd reading
- **2024-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-08** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 452) `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2024-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2024-03-08** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 708)
- **2024-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-09** House Message received
- **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 3/27/24 - 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 164, 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/d41f0ee6-0405-44b6-ad48-d35ad15243fa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).