---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increasing minimum contract price requiring execution of bond with respect to building or repairing school property"
description: "Increasing minimum contract price requiring execution of bond with respect to building or repairing school property"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 561"
citation: "West Virginia SB 561 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jeffries"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 37
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-15"
last_action: "2018-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15275478-6917-4ee2-b733-dc1db81477f3"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=561&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "d474076c468b3be5a2c0ccb525a4105fa7aa40afb83548f3ea81afca35b60964"
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 561 (2018) — Increasing minimum contract price requiring execution of bond with respect to building or repairing school property

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB561%20SUB1.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=561)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB561%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=561)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB561%20INTR.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=561)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · legislature
- PASSAGE — **97–2** (pass) · legislature

## Sponsors

- Jeffries — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-02-15** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2018-02-15** To Education then Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-15** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2018-02-15** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** Committee substitute reported, but first to Government Organization
- **2018-02-22** Immediate consideration
- **2018-02-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-02-22** On 2nd reading to Government Organization
- **2018-02-22** Senate further considered bill
- **2018-02-22** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2018-02-23** On 2nd reading
- **2018-02-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-02-26** On 3rd reading
- **2018-02-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-02-26** Passed Senate (Roll No. 198) `passage`
- **2018-02-26** Ordered to House
- **2018-02-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-02-27** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** Do pass
- **2018-03-01** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2018-03-02** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-03-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2018-03-03** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-03-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2018-03-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2018-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2018-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 322) `passage`
- **2018-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2018-03-05** Completed legislative action
- **2018-03-06** House Message received
- **2018-03-09** To Governor 3/9/18 `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** To Governor 3/9/18 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - House Journal
- **2018-03-27** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 `executive-signature`
- **2018-03-10** Approved by Governor 3/27/18 - Senate Journal
- **2018-04-23** Chapter 71, Acts, Regular Session, 2018

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/15275478-6917-4ee2-b733-dc1db81477f3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).