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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating generally to practice of optometry"
+description: "Relating generally to practice of optometry"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 565"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 565 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Professions and Occupations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Taylor"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 45
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-21"
+last_action: "2025-08-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bbb0b17a-683f-4c88-8011-a1a1a46716b6"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=565&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "04e5e38bcd55cf03030398268f8b207476f9a687c21c17e88bb5cac8c7f8abf0"
+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 565 (2025) — Relating generally to practice of optometry
+
+## 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=sb565%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=565)
+2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb565%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=565)
+3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb565%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=565)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb565%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=565)
+5. **Takubo #2 floor amendments adopted (Roll No. 77)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/2025/RS/votes/senate/03-07-0077.pdf)
+6. **sb565 h hhr am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb565%20h%20hhr%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)
+7. **sb565 hfat worrell 4-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb565%20hfat%20worrell%204-9%20adopted.htm)
+8. **sb565 sfa takubo _2 3-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb565%20sfa%20takubo%20_2%203-7%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- PASSAGE — **93–4** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **22–11** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Taylor — primary (person)
+- Clements — cosponsor (person)
+- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
+- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
+- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
+- Morris — cosponsor (person)
+- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
+- Rose — cosponsor (person)
+- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-21** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-02-21** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-02-21** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-05** Committee substitute reported
+- **2025-03-06** On 1st reading
+- **2025-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-07** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-07** Takubo #1 floor amendment rejected (Roll No. 76)
+- **2025-03-07** Takubo #2 floor amendments adopted (Roll No. 77)
+- **2025-03-07** Floor amendment reported
+- **2025-03-07** Takubo #3 floor amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
+- **2025-03-10** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-10** Passed Senate (Roll No. 86) `passage`
+- **2025-03-10** Ordered to House
+- **2025-03-11** House received Senate message
+- **2025-03-11** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-03-11** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-11** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-31** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-04-04** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
+- **2025-04-07** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-04-08** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-08** Amendment reported by the Clerk
+- **2025-04-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-04-09** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2025-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-04-09** Passed House (Roll No. 432) `passage`
+- **2025-04-09** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
+- **2025-04-09** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-10** House Message received
+- **2025-04-10** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 459)
+- **2025-04-10** Communicated to House
+- **2025-04-10** Completed legislative action
+- **2025-04-14** To Governor 4/14/2025 `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/14/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/14/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-05-01** Became law 5/1/2025
+- **2025-04-12** Became law without Governor's signature - Senate Journal
+- **2025-04-12** Became law without Governor's signature- House Journal
+- **2025-08-08** Chapter 198, 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/bbb0b17a-683f-4c88-8011-a1a1a46716b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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