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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Higher Ed Rules"
description: "Higher Ed Rules"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2773"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2773 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Rules"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 41
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-21"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f52290d6-5184-4a70-a568-6c9e7b1cc8f5"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2773&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "572fbc4978afab32b5b21a876cca3ff981b4ea571da10482eca0b86a6f212e7f"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
---
# West Virginia HB 2773 (2025) — Higher Ed Rules
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2773%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2773)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2773%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2773)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2773%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2773)
## Votes
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Ellington — primary (person)
- Clark, T. — cosponsor (person)
- Crouse — cosponsor (person)
- Dittman — cosponsor (person)
- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Mallow — cosponsor (person)
- Pritt — cosponsor (person)
- Statler — cosponsor (person)
- Toney — cosponsor (person)
- Willis — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-21** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-21** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-21** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** To House Higher Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-11** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** Do pass
- **2025-03-18** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-19** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-20** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-20** Passed House (Roll No. 124) `passage`
- **2025-03-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-21** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-04** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-07** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-08** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 367) `passage`
- **2025-04-08** Effective from passage (Roll No. 368)
- **2025-04-08** Senate requests House to concur in changed effective date
- **2025-04-10** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-10** House concurred in Senate effective date (Roll No. 452)
- **2025-04-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-10** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-11** House Message received
- **2025-04-15** To Governor 4/15/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/15/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/15/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-25** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-31** Chapter 146, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f52290d6-5184-4a70-a568-6c9e7b1cc8f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).