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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Amending performance evaluations of professional personnel"
+description: "Amending performance evaluations of professional personnel"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "HB 2597"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2597 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Toney"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 35
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-17"
+last_action: "2023-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfeafd08-3b48-4cac-8a53-ac58b28ddccd"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2597&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "1332d75f9576bdd84b4495a6cda2bf2da2bc0d82b2757c008ed0dc6baf59a8ce"
+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 2597 (2023) — Amending performance evaluations of professional personnel
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2597%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2597)
+2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2597%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2597)
+3. **hb2597 hfat toney 1-27 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2597 hfat toney 1-27 adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **31–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Toney — primary (person)
+- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
+- Cooper — cosponsor (person)
+- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
+- Foggin — cosponsor (person)
+- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
+- Heckert — cosponsor (person)
+- Kirby — cosponsor (person)
+- Shamblin — cosponsor (person)
+- Vance — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2023-01-17** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2023-01-17** To House Education `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-24** Do pass
+- **2023-01-25** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-01-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-01-26** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-01-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-01-27** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-01-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-01-27** Passed House (Roll No. 46) `passage`
+- **2023-01-27** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2023-01-27** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-01-30** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-01-30** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-30** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-28** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-01** On 1st reading
+- **2023-03-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-03-02** On 2nd reading
+- **2023-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-03** On 3rd reading
+- **2023-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-03** Passed Senate (Roll No. 358) `passage`
+- **2023-03-03** Communicated to House
+- **2023-03-03** Completed legislative action
+- **2023-03-04** House received Senate message
+- **2023-03-09** To Governor 3/9/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-09** To Governor 3/9/2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-09** To Governor 3/9/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-01** Chapter 299, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dfeafd08-3b48-4cac-8a53-ac58b28ddccd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+