republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/hb-4986.md

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Bill	Relating to computer science and cybersecurity instruction for adult learners	Relating to computer science and cybersecurity instruction for adult learners	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	HB 4986	West Virginia HB 4986 (2024)	bill	Education (Higher)	enacted	Rohrbach	3	36	2	2024-01-22	2024-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/a6513a85-1689-4391-9450-e3a1c8345e3c	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4986&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	0e6e789c8529057b4d206044befddaecf2e97b42b2335c732506f67ecfe4be84	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4986 (2024) — Relating to computer science and cybersecurity instruction for adult learners

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 — 95–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Rohrbach — primary (person)
• Ellington — cosponsor (person)
• Ferrell — cosponsor (person)
• Foggin — cosponsor (person)
• Hornby — cosponsor (person)
• Jennings — cosponsor (person)
• Longanacre — cosponsor (person)
• Mazzocchi — cosponsor (person)
• Statler — cosponsor (person)
• Toney — cosponsor (person)
• Warner — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-22 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-22 To Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-22 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-22 To House Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-08 By substitute, do pass
• 2024-02-09 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-09 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-12 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-12 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-13 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-13 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-13 Passed House (Roll No. 162) passage
• 2024-02-13 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-02-14 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-02-14 To Education then Finance referral-committee
• 2024-02-14 To Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 Reported do pass, but first to Finance committee-passage
• 2024-02-29 To Finance referral-committee
• 2024-03-04 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2024-03-04 Immediate consideration
• 2024-03-04 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-03-05 On 2nd reading
• 2024-03-05 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-06 On 3rd reading
• 2024-03-06 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-06 Passed Senate (Roll No. 386) passage
• 2024-03-06 Communicated to House
• 2024-03-06 Completed legislative action
• 2024-03-06 House received Senate message
• 2024-03-13 To Governor 3/13/2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/13/2024 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/13/2024 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2024-03-22 Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2024-04-22 Chapter 115, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a6513a85-1689-4391-9450-e3a1c8345e3c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).