---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to Higher Education Policy Commission funding formula"
description: "Relating to Higher Education Policy Commission funding formula"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4008"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4008 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 45
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-01-24"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d2707620-fa0d-478a-b54a-f290f119f646"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4008&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "4e6c806d0e49391103d4cecf7a3a154806b57cae07c49413426b17831e9d9ee8"
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 4008 (2022) — Relating to Higher Education Policy Commission funding formula

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4008%20SUB.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4008)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4008%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4008)
3. **HB4008 S FIN AM _1 3-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4008 S FIN AM _1 3-7 adopted.htm)
4. **HB4008 S FIN AMT _1 3-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4008 S FIN AMT _1 3-7 adopted.htm)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4008%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4008)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ellington — primary (person)
- Bridges — cosponsor (person)
- Criss — cosponsor (person)
- Espinosa — cosponsor (person)
- Gearheart — cosponsor (person)
- Hanna — cosponsor (person)
- Horst — cosponsor (person)
- Householder — cosponsor (person)
- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Statler — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-24** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-01-24** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-01-24** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-27** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-27** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-10** By substitute, do pass
- **2022-02-11** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-14** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-15** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-15** Postponed on 3rd reading, Special Calendar, until 2/16/22
- **2022-02-16** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-16** Passed House (Roll No. 147) `passage`
- **2022-02-16** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-17** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-17** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-03** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-08** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-09** On 1st reading
- **2022-03-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-10** On 2nd reading
- **2022-03-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-10** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2022-03-11** On 3rd reading
- **2022-03-11** Deferred until foot of 3rd reading
- **2022-03-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-11** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 468) `passage`
- **2022-03-11** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-03-12** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-12** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 652)
- **2022-03-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-12** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-12** House Message received
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/25/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/25/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-25** To Governor 3/25/22 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/2022 - Senate Journal
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 149, Acts, Regular Session, 2022

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d2707620-fa0d-478a-b54a-f290f119f646`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).