republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2020/hb-4077.md

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Bill	Increasing the amount of the bond required to be posted by proprietary schools	Increasing the amount of the bond required to be posted by proprietary schools	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2020	HB 4077	West Virginia HB 4077 (2020)	bill	Education (Higher)	enacted	Higginbotham	3	35	2	2020-01-09	2020-04-15	openstates	ocd-bill/e50d5e67-674e-441a-b240-1abdce89856e	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4077&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	237440bbc68194ef2a860328af663fa673bffb70c1518af228d04defc67dec81	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4077 (2020) — Increasing the amount of the bond required to be posted by proprietary schools

Version chain

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

1. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 99–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Higginbotham — primary (person)
• Ellington — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-01-09 Filed for introduction filing
• 2020-01-09 To Education referral-committee
• 2020-01-09 Introduced in House introduction
• 2020-01-09 To House Education referral-committee
• 2020-01-17 By substitute, do pass
• 2020-01-20 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2020-01-20 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2020-01-21 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2020-01-21 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-01-22 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2020-01-22 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-01-22 Passed House (Roll No. 25) passage
• 2020-01-22 Communicated to Senate
• 2020-01-23 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2020-01-23 To Education then Finance referral-committee
• 2020-01-23 To Education referral-committee
• 2020-02-28 Reported do pass, but first to Finance committee-passage
• 2020-02-28 2nd reference dispensed
• 2020-02-29 On 1st reading
• 2020-02-29 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2020-03-02 On 2nd reading
• 2020-03-02 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-03-03 On 3rd reading
• 2020-03-03 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-03-03 Passed Senate (Roll No. 391) passage
• 2020-03-03 Communicated to House
• 2020-03-03 Completed legislative action
• 2020-03-03 House received Senate message
• 2020-03-07 To Governor 3/12/20 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2020-03-12 To Governor 3/12/20 executive-receipt
• 2020-03-07 To Governor 3/12/20 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2020-03-07 Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
• 2020-03-07 Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
• 2020-03-25 Approved by Governor 3/25/20 executive-signature
• 2020-04-15 Chapter 177, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e50d5e67-674e-441a-b240-1abdce89856e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).