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+type: "Bill"
+title: "To provide at least one counselor for every 250 students in public schools and public charter schools in this state."
+description: "To provide at least one counselor for every 250 students in public schools and public charter schools in this state."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 3209"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 3209 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Statler"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 48
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-03-06"
+last_action: "2025-07-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2853f99b-30ba-463f-9852-6715b5b09d4e"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3209&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "ace5822857420f2b38f1bed73f94648d23d938d358104ac52df32451cb21eadf"
+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 3209 (2025) — To provide at least one counselor for every 250 students in public schools and public charter schools in this state.
+
+## 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=hb3209%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3209)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3209%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3209)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3209%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3209)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3209%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3209)
+5. **hb3209 hfa ellington 3-25 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb3209%20hfa%20ellington%203-25%20_1%20adopted.htm)
+6. **hb3209 hfat ellington 3-26 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb3209%20hfat%20ellington%203-26%20adopted.htm)
+7. **hb3209 sfat grady _1 4-11 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb3209%20sfat%20grady%20_1%204-11%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- EFFECT Jul 01, 2025 — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **97–1** (pass) · lower
+- EFFECT Jul 01, 2025 — **96–0** (pass) · lower
+- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Statler — primary (person)
+- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
+- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
+- Cooper — cosponsor (person)
+- Criss — cosponsor (person)
+- Dittman — cosponsor (person)
+- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
+- Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
+- Heckert — cosponsor (person)
+- Stephens — cosponsor (person)
+- Vance — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-06** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-03-06** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-06** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-03-06** To House Education `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-24** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-03-26** By substitute, do pass
+- **2025-03-26** 2nd reference dispensed
+- **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`
+- **2025-03-28** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2025-03-28** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-03-31** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-03-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-31** Passed House (Roll No. 284) `passage`
+- **2025-03-31** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-03-31** Effective July 1, 2025 (Roll No. 285)
+- **2025-03-31** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-04-01** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-01** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-07** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-07** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-09** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-09** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 491) `passage`
+- **2025-04-11** Title amendment adopted
+- **2025-04-11** Effective July 1, 2025 (Roll No. 492)
+- **2025-04-11** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2025-04-12** House received Senate message
+- **2025-04-12** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 608)
+- **2025-04-12** Effective July 1, 2025 (Roll No. 609)
+- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-04-12** House Message received
+- **2025-04-21** To Governor 4/21/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-28** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/28/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-07-30** Chapter 102, 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/2853f99b-30ba-463f-9852-6715b5b09d4e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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