republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2022/hb-4008.md

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Bill	Relating to Higher Education Policy Commission funding formula	Relating to Higher Education Policy Commission funding formula	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2022	HB 4008	West Virginia HB 4008 (2022)	bill	Education (K12)	enacted	Ellington	5	45	1	2022-01-24	2022-04-19	openstates	ocd-bill/d2707620-fa0d-478a-b54a-f290f119f646	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4008&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	4e6c806d0e49391103d4cecf7a3a154806b57cae07c49413426b17831e9d9ee8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	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
2. Enrolled Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
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

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; origin ocd-bill/d2707620-fa0d-478a-b54a-f290f119f646. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).