---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to establishing the West Virginia Youth Summer Employment and Career Readiness Program."
description: "Relating to establishing the West Virginia Youth Summer Employment and Career Readiness Program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 5480"
citation: "West Virginia HB 5480 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Economic Development"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hornbuckle"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 39
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2026-02-12"
last_action: "2026-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/471d54e7-919d-48f6-9151-cef5c6e6ece4"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5480&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "ec746213c81f33b233fec05d15045a4c1d9a286bc972458a896133e2e8b6f955"
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 5480 (2026) — Relating to establishing the West Virginia Youth Summer Employment and Career Readiness Program.

## 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=hb5480%20sub1.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=5480)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5480%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=5480)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5480%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=5480)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5480%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=5480)
5. **hb5480 s wrk am _1 3-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/com_amends/hb5480%20s%20wrk%20am%20_1%203-10%20adopted.htm)
6. **hb5480 s wrk amt _1 3-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/com_amends/hb5480%20s%20wrk%20amt%20_1%203-10%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **87–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hornbuckle — primary (person)
- Criss — cosponsor (person)
- Fluharty — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Hansen — cosponsor (person)
- Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
- Lewis — cosponsor (person)
- Riley — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Williams — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2026-02-12** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-12** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2026-02-12** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-27** By substitute, do pass
- **2026-03-02** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-03-03** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-03** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2026-03-03** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2026-03-04** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-03-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-04** Passed House (Roll No. 322) `passage`
- **2026-03-04** Communicated to Senate
- **2026-03-05** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2026-03-05** To Workforce
- **2026-03-05** To Workforce
- **2026-03-10** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-10** Immediate consideration
- **2026-03-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-03-11** On 2nd reading
- **2026-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-11** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2026-03-12** On 3rd reading
- **2026-03-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-12** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 511) `passage`
- **2026-03-12** Senate requests House to concur
- **2026-03-14** House received Senate message
- **2026-03-14** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 661)
- **2026-03-14** Communicated to Senate
- **2026-03-14** Completed legislative action
- **2026-03-14** House Message received
- **2026-03-14** To Governor 3/25/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-25** To Governor 3/25/26 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-14** Became law without Governor's signature - Senate Journal
- **2026-04-02** Became law 4/2/2026
- **2026-03-14** Became law without Governor's signature- House Journal
- **2026-06-29** Chapter 142, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/471d54e7-919d-48f6-9151-cef5c6e6ece4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).