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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Non Profit Athletics Act"
+description: "Non Profit Athletics Act"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 2595"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2595 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education (Higher)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Riley"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-02-18"
+last_action: "2025-07-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ae9c6435-9809-424f-9e35-1a1aa2ac6df8"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2595&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "52714be244570168668967dcf259a70e64ccabf27e8ce9b80caa99a46a9ceb80"
+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 2595 (2025) — Non Profit Athletics Act
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2595%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2595)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2595%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2595)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2595%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2595)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2595%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2595)
+
+## Votes
+
+- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **97–2** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **97–3** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Riley — primary (person)
+- Browning — cosponsor (person)
+- Cannon, J. — cosponsor (person)
+- Chiarelli — cosponsor (person)
+- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
+- Fehrenbacher — cosponsor (person)
+- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
+- Maynor — cosponsor (person)
+- McCormick — cosponsor (person)
+- Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
+- Statler — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-18** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-18** To Education then Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-18** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-02-18** To House Education `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-07** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
+- **2025-03-07** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-26** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-03-27** By substitute, do pass
+- **2025-03-28** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-31** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-31** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-01** On 3rd reading with right to amend, House Calendar
+- **2025-04-01** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-01** Passed House (Roll No. 314) `passage`
+- **2025-04-01** Effective from passage (Roll No. 315)
+- **2025-04-01** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-02** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-04-02** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-02** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-08** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-08** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-04-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-09** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-04-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-10** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-04-10** Deferred until foot of 3rd reading
+- **2025-04-10** Deferred until foot of 2nd reading
+- **2025-04-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-10** Passed Senate (Roll No. 464) `passage`
+- **2025-04-10** Effective from passage (Roll No. 465)
+- **2025-04-10** Communicated to House
+- **2025-04-10** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-04-22** To Governor 4/22/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-30** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-07-30** Chapter 99, 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/ae9c6435-9809-424f-9e35-1a1aa2ac6df8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+