---
type: "Bill"
title: "Patriotic Access to Students in Schools Act"
description: "Patriotic Access to Students in Schools Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 4863"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4863 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Espinosa"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 40
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-17"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0b91e3e5-1829-4216-907f-bacf058b4102"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4863&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "f63dbe36317095cc12a4821fa14c439a17732c0b4d3743b98fecee87fa379a56"
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 4863 (2024) — Patriotic Access to Students in Schools Act

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4863%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4863)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4863%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=4863)
3. **hb4863 s ed am _1 3-5 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/hb4863%20s%20ed%20am%20_1%203-5%20adopted.htm)
4. **hb4863 sfa clements _1 3-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/hb4863%20sfa%20clements%20_1%203-7%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Espinosa — primary (person)
- Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
- Clark, W. — cosponsor (person)
- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
- Hillenbrand — cosponsor (person)
- Hite — cosponsor (person)
- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
- Householder — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-17** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-17** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** Do pass
- **2024-02-05** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-06** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-06** Amendment rejected (Voice vote) `amendment-failure`
- **2024-02-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-07** Passed House (Roll No. 109) `passage`
- **2024-02-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-08** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-08** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-08** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-06** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-06** Immediate consideration
- **2024-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2024-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-08** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2024-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-03-08** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-03-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 438) `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2024-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2024-03-08** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 695)
- **2024-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-09** House Message received
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-21** To Governor 3/21/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-22** Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Chapter 112, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0b91e3e5-1829-4216-907f-bacf058b4102`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).