republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2020/hb-4729.md

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Bill	Requiring higher education institutions to use previous versions or editions of instructional materials	Requiring higher education institutions to use previous versions or editions of instructional materials	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2020	HB 4729	West Virginia HB 4729 (2020)	bill	Education (Higher)	enacted	Linville	3	34	2	2020-02-06	2020-04-15	openstates	ocd-bill/86ce9f3f-ffa6-4806-b197-4b9a4aed9355	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4729&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	8d5163c2b2cadf03bf75ebc6ee8871089b29549dd9e273709caf133247ba5b1a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4729 (2020) — Requiring higher education institutions to use previous versions or editions of instructional materials

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 — 96–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Linville — primary (person)
• Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
• Ellington — cosponsor (person)
• Foster — cosponsor (person)
• Graves — cosponsor (person)
• Hanna — cosponsor (person)
• Higginbotham — cosponsor (person)
• Maynard — cosponsor (person)
• McGeehan — cosponsor (person)
• Pack — cosponsor (person)
• Summers — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-02-06 Filed for introduction filing
• 2020-02-06 To Education referral-committee
• 2020-02-06 Introduced in House introduction
• 2020-02-06 To House Education referral-committee
• 2020-02-13 By substitute, do pass
• 2020-02-14 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2020-02-14 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2020-02-17 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2020-02-17 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2020-02-18 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2020-02-18 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2020-02-18 Passed House (Roll No. 227) passage
• 2020-02-18 Communicated to Senate
• 2020-02-19 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2020-02-19 To Education referral-committee
• 2020-02-19 To Education referral-committee
• 2020-02-28 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 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. 409) 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 3/13/20 - 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 3/25/20 - 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 180, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/86ce9f3f-ffa6-4806-b197-4b9a4aed9355. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).