republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/hb-4709.md

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Bill	Relating to vocational and technical education programs	Relating to vocational and technical education programs	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	HB 4709	West Virginia HB 4709 (2024)	bill	Education (K12)	enacted	Dean	3	37	2	2024-01-15	2024-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/286efab2-89a8-4590-8c16-2319b8e95058	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4709&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	7e70876abf27e9ba4b735a7041104e83efacd0a431784fe7e078e03b7f2c1481	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 4709 (2024) — Relating to vocational and technical education programs

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 — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Dean — primary (person)
• Dillon — cosponsor (person)
• Worrell — cosponsor (person)
• Young — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-15 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-15 To Education then Finance referral-committee
• 2024-01-15 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-15 To House Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance committee-passage
• 2024-02-15 To House Finance referral-committee
• 2024-02-23 By substitute, 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
• 2024-02-28 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-28 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-28 Passed House (Roll No. 351) passage
• 2024-02-28 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-02-29 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-02-29 To Education then Finance referral-committee
• 2024-02-29 To Education referral-committee
• 2024-03-04 Reported do pass, but first to Finance committee-passage
• 2024-03-04 2nd reference dispensed
• 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. 384) 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 108, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/286efab2-89a8-4590-8c16-2319b8e95058. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).