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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Establishing Troops-to-Teachers Program"
+description: "Establishing Troops-to-Teachers Program"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 765"
+citation: "West Virginia SB 765 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Willis"]
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 46
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-03-17"
+last_action: "2025-08-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f348667-ab3e-4167-a756-d6b429639f2d"
+source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=765&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "39e22deb4ead7aa07d15ee574f6fee16de69c76227daea701e1de13065456b22"
+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 765 (2025) — Establishing Troops-to-Teachers Program
+
+## 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=sb765%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=765)
+2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb765%20sub2.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=765)
+3. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb765%20sub2%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=765)
+4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb765%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=765)
+5. **sb765 hfa ridenour 4-8 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb765%20hfa%20ridenour%204-8%20_1%20adopted.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- RECEDE — **59–39** (pass) · lower
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- PASSAGE — **93–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Willis — primary (person)
+- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
+- Fuller — cosponsor (person)
+- Grady — cosponsor (person)
+- Thorne — cosponsor (person)
+- Weld — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2025-03-17** To Military then Education
+- **2025-03-17** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2025-03-17** To Military
+- **2025-03-20** Committee substitute reported, but first to Education
+- **2025-03-20** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-27** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
+- **2025-03-27** Immediate consideration
+- **2025-03-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2025-03-28** On 2nd reading
+- **2025-03-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2025-03-29** On 3rd reading
+- **2025-03-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2025-03-29** Passed Senate (Roll No. 232) `passage`
+- **2025-03-29** Ordered to House
+- **2025-03-31** House received Senate message
+- **2025-03-31** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2025-03-31** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-31** To House Education `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-02** Markup Discussion
+- **2025-04-04** Do pass
+- **2025-04-04** Reference dispensed
+- **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** 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. 435) `passage`
+- **2025-04-09** Communicated to Senate
+- **2025-04-11** House Message received
+- **2025-04-11** Senate refused to concur; requested House recede(Voice vote)
+- **2025-04-11** Communicated to House
+- **2025-04-12** House received Senate message
+- **2025-04-12** House receded (Roll No. 602)
+- **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 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-04-30** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 `executive-signature`
+- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
+- **2025-08-08** Chapter 90, 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/7f348667-ab3e-4167-a756-d6b429639f2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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