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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Permitting the Legislative Auditor to conduct periodic performance and financial audits of the West Virginia Department of Education"
+description: "Permitting the Legislative Auditor to conduct periodic performance and financial audits of the West Virginia Department of Education"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 2897"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 2897 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 41
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-24"
+last_action: "2025-07-21"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/483044d1-c4f3-4257-90ae-cd696479409c"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2897&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "29f892847bc1a314c93d0e8003e5fb2e66f70a02954e37fec3c998a7710bc9bd"
+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 2897 (2025) — Permitting the Legislative Auditor to conduct periodic performance and financial audits of the West Virginia Department of Education
+
+## 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=hb2897%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2897)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2897%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2897)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2897%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2897)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2897%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2897)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ellington — primary (person)
+- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
+- Crouse — cosponsor (person)
+- Dittman — cosponsor (person)
+- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
+- Statler — cosponsor (person)
+- Toney — cosponsor (person)
+- Willis — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-24** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-24** To Education then Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-02-24** To House Education `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-05** To House Public Education `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-11** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-03-11** To House Education `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-11** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-03-18** By substitute, do pass, but first to Government Organization
+- **2025-03-18** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-24** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-03-26** Do pass
+- **2025-03-27** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-31** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-31** Passed House (Roll No. 273) `passage`
+- **2025-03-31** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-04-01** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-01** 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. 371) `passage`
+- **2025-04-08** Communicated to House
+- **2025-04-08** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-04-09** House received Senate message
+- **2025-04-14** To Governor 4/14/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-14** To Governor 4/12/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/14/2025 - 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`
+- **2025-07-21** Chapter 3, 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/483044d1-c4f3-4257-90ae-cd696479409c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
+