republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/hb-4945.md

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Bill	Relating generally to the Hope Scholarship Program	Relating generally to the Hope Scholarship Program	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	HB 4945	West Virginia HB 4945 (2024)	bill	Education (Higher)	enacted	Espinosa	4	48	4	2024-01-19	2024-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/609dc783-cc72-48dd-963e-f94f55e905be	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4945&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	b883c966cf4483e92a174a27f61911962c2c8b8a14421984267628c2b08f2e94	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4945 (2024) — Relating generally to the Hope Scholarship Program

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
3. hb4945 sfa rucker _1 3-7 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
4. hb4945 sfat rucker _1 3-7 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• HFA HORNBUCKLE 2-27 — 17–70 (fail) · lower
• Passage — 32–1 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 76–21 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 80–17 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Espinosa — primary (person)
• Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
• Clark, W. — cosponsor (person)
• Ellington — cosponsor (person)
• Hardy — cosponsor (person)
• Hite — cosponsor (person)
• Hornby — cosponsor (person)
• Householder — cosponsor (person)
• Mazzocchi — cosponsor (person)
• Smith — cosponsor (person)
• Statler — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-19 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-19 To Education then Finance referral-committee
• 2024-01-19 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-19 To House Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-30 Do pass, but first to Finance
• 2024-01-30 To House Finance referral-committee
• 2024-02-23 Do pass
• 2024-02-26 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-26 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-27 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-27 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-27 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2024-02-27 Amendment rejected (Roll No. 342) amendment-failure
• 2024-02-28 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Passed House (Roll No. 360) passage
• 2024-02-28 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-02-29 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-02-29 To Finance referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 To Finance referral-committee
• 2024-03-05 Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment committee-passage
• 2024-03-05 Immediate consideration
• 2024-03-05 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-03-06 On 2nd reading
• 2024-03-06 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-07 On 3rd reading with right to amend
• 2024-03-07 Laid over on 3rd reading 3/7/2024 with right to amend
• 2024-03-08 Deferred until foot of 3rd reading
• 2024-03-08 Rearranged on calendar by Rules Committee
• 2024-03-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-08 Committee amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
• 2024-03-08 Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-03-08 Passed Senate (Roll No. 475) passage
• 2024-03-08 Committee title amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
• 2024-03-08 Title amendment adopted
• 2024-03-08 Senate requests House to concur
• 2024-03-09 House received Senate message
• 2024-03-09 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 737)
• 2024-03-09 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-03-09 Completed legislative action
• 2024-03-09 House Message received
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/21/2024 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-21 To Governor 3/21/2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/21/2024 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2024-03-27 Approved by Governor 3/27/24 executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2024-04-22 Chapter 113, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/609dc783-cc72-48dd-963e-f94f55e905be. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).