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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Making it felony offense for school employee or volunteer to engage in sexual contact with students"
+description: "Making it felony offense for school employee or volunteer to engage in sexual contact with students"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2023"
+identifier: "SB 187"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 187 (2023)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Crime"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Clements"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 45
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2023-01-13"
+last_action: "2023-05-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c904108a-adca-47e9-bd22-fd73694d2517"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=187&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "940f1d3852429d19cee901377bd276c8798bf96b01c9015742ba523a2ce53db7"
+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 187 (2023) — Making it felony offense for school employee or volunteer to engage in sexual contact with students
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb187%20sub1.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=187)
+2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb187%20sub2.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=187)
+3. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb187%20sub2%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=187)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb187%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=187)
+5. **sb187 h jud am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/sb187 h jud am _1 adopted.htm)
+6. **sb187 hfat capito 3-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/sb187 hfat capito 3-10 adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Clements — primary (person)
+- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
+- Grady — cosponsor (person)
+- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
+- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
+- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
+- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
+- Stuart — cosponsor (person)
+- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2023-01-13** To Education then Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-13** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2023-01-13** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2023-01-17** Committee substitute reported, but first to Judiciary
+- **2023-01-17** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-08** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
+- **2023-02-09** On 1st reading
+- **2023-02-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-02-10** On 2nd reading
+- **2023-02-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-02-13** On 3rd reading
+- **2023-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-02-13** Passed Senate (Roll No. 170) `passage`
+- **2023-02-13** Ordered to House
+- **2023-02-14** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2023-02-14** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2023-02-14** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2023-03-08** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2023-03-08** Immediate consideration
+- **2023-03-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2023-03-09** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2023-03-10** On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar
+- **2023-03-10** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2023-03-10** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2023-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2023-03-10** Passed House (Roll No. 639) `passage`
+- **2023-03-10** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2023-03-10** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-03-11** House Message received
+- **2023-03-11** Senate refused to concur; requested House recede(Voice vote)
+- **2023-03-11** Communicated to House
+- **2023-03-11** House received Senate message
+- **2023-03-11** House receded and passed (Roll No. 776)
+- **2023-03-11** Communicated to Senate
+- **2023-03-11** Completed legislative action
+- **2023-03-11** House Message received
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/16/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-16** To Governor 3/16/2023 `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/16/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2023-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2023-05-01** Chapter 100, 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/c904108a-adca-47e9-bd22-fd73694d2517`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+