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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Allowing county boards of education to publish financial statements on website"
+description: "Allowing county boards of education to publish financial statements on website"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2021"
+identifier: "SB 651"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 651 (2021)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Rucker"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2021-03-17"
+last_action: "2021-05-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a63cf251-86dd-4cce-8caa-68e21c484f2c"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=651&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "2053197a062a7bd43aa356edc16d43746be1079ae54e0ecf5353450793628b54"
+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 SB 651 (2021) — Allowing county boards of education to publish financial statements on website
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB651%20ENG.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=651)
+2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB651%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=651)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB651%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=651)
+4. **SB651 H ED AM 4-1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/SB651 H ED AM 4-1 adopted.htm)
+5. **SB651 HFAT ELLINGTON 4-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/SB651 HFAT ELLINGTON 4-6 adopted.htm)
+6. **SB651 SFA TRUMP 3-24 _2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/SB651 SFA TRUMP 3-24 _2 adopted.htm)
+7. **SB651 SFAT _1 RUCKER 3-25 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/floor_amends/SB651 SFAT _1 RUCKER 3-25 adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Rucker — primary (person)
+- Karnes — cosponsor (person)
+- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-03-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2021-03-17** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-17** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2021-03-17** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-19** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-03-22** On 1st reading
+- **2021-03-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2021-03-23** On 2nd reading
+- **2021-03-23** Laid over on 2nd reading 3/23/21
+- **2021-03-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-03-24** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2021-03-25** On 3rd reading
+- **2021-03-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-03-25** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 197) `passage`
+- **2021-03-25** Ordered to House
+- **2021-03-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2021-03-25** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-25** To House Education `referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-01** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2021-04-02** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2021-04-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2021-04-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2021-04-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2021-04-05** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2021-04-06** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2021-04-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2021-04-06** Passed House (Roll No. 468) `passage`
+- **2021-04-06** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2021-04-06** Communicated to Senate
+- **2021-04-07** House Message received
+- **2021-04-07** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 338)
+- **2021-04-07** Communicated to House
+- **2021-04-07** Completed legislative action
+- **2021-04-07** House received Senate message
+- **2021-04-13** To Governor 4/13/21 `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/13/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/13/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/19/21 - House Journal
+- **2021-04-19** Approved by Governor 4/19/21 `executive-signature`
+- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/19/21 - Senate Journal
+- **2021-05-24** Chapter 97, Acts, Regular Session, 2021
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a63cf251-86dd-4cce-8caa-68e21c484f2c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+