---
type: "Bill"
title: "Guaranteed course transfer bill"
description: "Guaranteed course transfer bill"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 3024"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3024 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (Higher)", "Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 39
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16fa4895-0943-4ab0-b0e5-cb6d9ca0427e"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3024&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "668111efd53c629026822f7eb515c63c0588652a9786db148c85bedf02ce49de"
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 3024 (2025) — Guaranteed course transfer bill

## 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=hb3024%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3024)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3024%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3024)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3024%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3024)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3024%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3024)
5. **hb3024 s ed am _1 4-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb3024%20s%20ed%20am%20_1%204-3%20adopted.htm)
6. **hb3024 sfat grady _1 4-8 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb3024%20sfat%20grady%20_1%204-8%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ellington — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Clark, T. — cosponsor (person)
- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
- Mallow — cosponsor (person)
- Shamblin — cosponsor (person)
- Statler — cosponsor (person)
- Stephens — cosponsor (person)
- Toney — cosponsor (person)
- Ward — cosponsor (person)
- Willis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-27** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-27** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-27** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** By substitute, do pass
- **2025-03-18** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-19** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-20** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-20** Passed House (Roll No. 125) `passage`
- **2025-03-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-21** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-04** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-07** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-07** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-08** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 372) `passage`
- **2025-04-08** Title amendment adopted
- **2025-04-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2025-04-10** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-10** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 490)
- **2025-04-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-10** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-11** House Message received
- **2025-04-15** To Governor 4/15/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/15/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/15/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-30** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-31** Chapter 147, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16fa4895-0943-4ab0-b0e5-cb6d9ca0427e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).