---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to Career Technical Education for middle school students"
description: "Relating to Career Technical Education for middle school students"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 4790"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4790 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 37
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2020-02-10"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/28c7696a-ece9-48bf-9040-eb96505ab8fb"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4790&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "7d630f648410e9d4aac442fcb83835f805ec2dae7c2f583edef8fd31f51d94d9"
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 4790 (2020) — Relating to Career Technical Education for middle school students

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4790%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4790)
2. **HB4790 S ED AM _1 2-27 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/HB4790 S ED AM _1 2-27 adopted.htm)
3. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4790%20ORG.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=4790)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **92–1** (pass) · lower
- HFA ROBINSON 2-12 REVISED — **39–56** (fail) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **94–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ellington — primary (person)
- Atkinson — cosponsor (person)
- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Hanna — cosponsor (person)
- Higginbotham — cosponsor (person)
- Hornbuckle — cosponsor (person)
- Lavender-Bowe — cosponsor (person)
- Thompson, R. — cosponsor (person)
- Toney — cosponsor (person)
- Waxman — cosponsor (person)
- Zukoff — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-10** Originating in House Education
- **2020-02-10** Do pass
- **2020-02-11** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-12** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-12** Amendment rejected (Roll No. 162) `amendment-failure`
- **2020-02-13** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-13** Passed House (Roll No. 179) `passage`
- **2020-02-13** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-14** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-14** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-14** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-28** Immediate consideration
- **2020-02-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-29** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-29** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-02** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-02** Laid over on 3rd reading 3/2/20
- **2020-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-03** Passed Senate (Roll No. 411) `passage`
- **2020-03-03** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-04** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-04** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 487)
- **2020-03-04** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-04** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-05** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/13/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/13/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-13** To Governor 3/13/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-24** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 122, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/28c7696a-ece9-48bf-9040-eb96505ab8fb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).