---
type: "Bill"
title: "Exempting the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, West Virginia University and Marshall University from contracts, agreements, or memorandums of understanding with spending units in state government with exceptions."
description: "Exempting the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, West Virginia University and Marshall University from contracts, agreements, or memorandums of understanding with spending units in state government with exceptions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 5594"
citation: "West Virginia HB 5594 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (Higher)", "Finance and Administration"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-12"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1c4d4bce-9020-48d1-abce-bc6b2e8268d5"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5594&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "b099cb80a456be618af027242f56239178912930cedb982485eb87763919570f"
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 5594 (2024) — Exempting the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, West Virginia University and Marshall University from contracts, agreements, or memorandums of understanding with spending units in state government with exceptions.

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5594%20eng.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5594)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5594%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5594)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5594%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5594)
4. **hb5594 hfa criss 2-28 _1 rev adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/hb5594%20hfa%20criss%202-28%20_1%20rev%20adopted.htm)
5. **hb5594 hfat criss 2-28 rev adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/hb5594%20hfat%20criss%202-28%20rev%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–1** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **87–10** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hanshaw — primary (person)
- Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
- Statler — cosponsor (person)
- Warner — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-02-12** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-02-12** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-23** Do pass
- **2024-02-26** 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** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2024-02-28** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-02-28** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-28** Passed House (Roll No. 390) `passage`
- **2024-02-28** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-02-28** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-29** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-29** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29** To Government Organization `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. 420) `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 3/27/2024 - 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 153, 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/1c4d4bce-9020-48d1-abce-bc6b2e8268d5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).