---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to abolishing the Workforce Development Initiative Program Advisory Council"
description: "Relating to abolishing the Workforce Development Initiative Program Advisory Council"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2022"
identifier: "HB 4604"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4604 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (Higher)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 38
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2022-02-09"
last_action: "2022-04-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e1454f40-e8fe-4cfc-a541-ce3d5bfc1245"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4604&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "af47cd64d69667aa64b30f099b6c76dff0fcca9f87a0dde60bf608db0348219b"
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 4604 (2022) — Relating to abolishing the Workforce Development Initiative Program Advisory Council

## 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=HB4604%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4604)
2. **HB4604 S ED AMT _1 3-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4604 S ED AMT _1 3-3 adopted.htm)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4604%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4604)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ellington — primary (person)
- Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- Hanna — cosponsor (person)
- Longanacre — cosponsor (person)
- Maynor — cosponsor (person)
- Mazzocchi — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Statler — cosponsor (person)
- Tully — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-02-09** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2022-02-09** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-09** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-02-09** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-17** Do pass
- **2022-02-18** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-02-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-02-22** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2022-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-02-22** Passed House (Roll No. 205) `passage`
- **2022-02-22** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-02-23** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-02-23** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-23** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-03** Reported do pass, with title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-04** On 1st reading
- **2022-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2022-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2022-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2022-03-08** On 3rd reading
- **2022-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2022-03-08** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 383) `passage`
- **2022-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2022-03-10** House received Senate message
- **2022-03-10** House concurred in Senate title amendment
- **2022-03-10** Passed House (Roll No. 468) `passage`
- **2022-03-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2022-03-10** Completed legislative action
- **2022-03-11** House Message received
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-17** To Governor 3/17/22 `executive-receipt`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 - House Journal
- **2022-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 `executive-signature`
- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/2022 - Senate Journal
- **2022-04-19** Chapter 167, 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/e1454f40-e8fe-4cfc-a541-ce3d5bfc1245`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).