republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2022/hb-4291.md

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Bill	Relating to authorizing legislative rules regarding higher education	Relating to authorizing legislative rules regarding higher education	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2022	HB 4291	West Virginia HB 4291 (2022)	bill	Education (Higher)	enacted	Ellington	2	34	1	2022-01-20	2022-04-19	openstates	ocd-bill/12c7d7dd-5ea6-415d-a212-cde19673eeb0	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4291&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	2339eb0961b81ada7bc062d93df6e93b06df547316320f4fa5544adbbba5b63a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4291 (2022) — Relating to authorizing legislative rules regarding higher education

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• Passage — 33–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ellington — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-20 Filed for introduction filing
• 2022-01-20 To Education referral-committee
• 2022-01-20 Introduced in House introduction
• 2022-01-20 To House Education referral-committee
• 2022-01-25 Do pass
• 2022-01-26 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2022-01-26 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2022-01-27 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2022-01-27 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-01-28 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2022-01-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-01-28 Passed House (Roll No. 52) passage
• 2022-01-28 Communicated to Senate
• 2022-01-31 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2022-01-31 To Education referral-committee
• 2022-01-31 To Education referral-committee
• 2022-03-02 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2022-03-03 On 1st reading
• 2022-03-03 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2022-03-04 On 2nd reading
• 2022-03-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2022-03-07 On 3rd reading
• 2022-03-07 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2022-03-07 Passed Senate (Roll No. 345) passage
• 2022-03-07 Communicated to House
• 2022-03-07 Completed legislative action
• 2022-03-08 House received Senate message
• 2022-03-12 To Governor 3/24/2022 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2022-03-12 To Governor 3/24/22 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2022-03-24 To Governor 3/24/22 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 152, Acts, Regular Session, 2022

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/12c7d7dd-5ea6-415d-a212-cde19673eeb0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).