---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enacting Students' Right to Know Act"
description: "Enacting Students' Right to Know Act"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "SB 303"
citation: "West Virginia SB 303 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Rucker"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 48
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2020-01-10"
last_action: "2020-04-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d35fee6-692a-4cba-a1f4-101bafe840e0"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=303&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "a28dd250d57bbab0ac9fbb97ed63576cb6f2b0488a480c4f69af31558aaa387f"
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 303 (2020) — Enacting Students' Right to Know Act

## 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=SB303%20SUB1.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=303)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB303%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=303)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB303%20INTR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=303)
4. **SB303 H ED AM _1 adopted adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/com_amends/SB303 H ED AM _1 adopted adopted.htm)
5. **SB303 HFA D. JEFFRIES 3-4 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB303 HFA D. JEFFRIES 3-4 _1 adopted.htm)
6. **SB303 SFAT _1 TAKUBO 3-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2020/RS/floor_amends/SB303 SFAT _1 TAKUBO 3-6 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- EFFECT JANUARY 1, 2021 — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT JANUARY 1, 2021 — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Rucker — primary (person)
- Cline — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-10** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-01-10** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-22** Committee substitute reported
- **2020-01-23** On 1st reading
- **2020-01-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-01-24** On 2nd reading
- **2020-01-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-01-27** On 3rd reading
- **2020-01-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-01-27** Passed Senate (Roll No. 27) `passage`
- **2020-01-27** Effective January 1, 2021 (Roll No. 27)
- **2020-01-27** Ordered to House
- **2020-01-28** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-28** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-28** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-28** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2020-02-29** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-29** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-03-02** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-03** From Special Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on House Calendar
- **2020-03-04** From House Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on Special Calendar
- **2020-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-04** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-04** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2020-03-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 562) `passage`
- **2020-03-05** Effective January 1, 2021 (Roll No. 563)
- **2020-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-07** Senate amends House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 537)
- **2020-03-07** Effective January 1, 2021 (Roll No. 537)
- **2020-03-07** Senate requests House to concur
- **2020-03-07** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-07** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 754)
- **2020-03-07** Effective January 1, 2021 (Roll No. 755)
- **2020-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-03-07** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-07** House Message received
- **2020-03-19** To Governor 3/19/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** To Governor 3/19/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-24** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/24/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-04-14** Chapter 110, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4d35fee6-692a-4cba-a1f4-101bafe840e0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).