---
type: "Bill"
title: "Removing expired, outdated, inoperative and antiquated provisions and report requirements in education"
description: "Removing expired, outdated, inoperative and antiquated provisions and report requirements in education"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 3177"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3177 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 40
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-03-16"
last_action: "2021-05-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/10398c91-f542-4fec-8720-17defb81fb9c"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3177&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "16e8f5964895907d164e793a198a40495cd2310e92dab418ea4f382495e4418b"
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# West Virginia HB 3177 (2021) — Removing expired, outdated, inoperative and antiquated provisions and report requirements in education

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3177%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=3177)
2. **HB3177 S ED AM _1 4-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB3177 S ED AM _1 4-6 adopted.htm)
3. **HB3177 S ED AMT _1 4-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/HB3177 S ED AMT _1 4-6 adopted.htm)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3177%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=3177)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ellington — primary (person)
- Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
- Hanna — cosponsor (person)
- Higginbotham — cosponsor (person)
- Holstein — cosponsor (person)
- Horst — cosponsor (person)
- Kessinger — cosponsor (person)
- Mandt — cosponsor (person)
- Mazzocchi — cosponsor (person)
- Smith — cosponsor (person)
- Toney — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-16** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-03-16** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-16** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-03-16** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-19** Do pass
- **2021-03-22** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-23** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-24** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-03-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-24** Passed House (Roll No. 269) `passage`
- **2021-03-24** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-03-25** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-03-25** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-06** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-07** On 1st reading
- **2021-04-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-04-08** On 2nd reading
- **2021-04-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-04-09** On 3rd reading
- **2021-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-09** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 424) `passage`
- **2021-04-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2021-04-10** House received Senate message
- **2021-04-10** House refused to concur; requested Senate to recede (Voice)
- **2021-04-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-04-10** House Message received
- **2021-04-10** Senate receded and passed (Roll No. 478)
- **2021-04-10** Communicated to House
- **2021-04-10** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/22/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-22** To Governor 4/22/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/22/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 - House Journal
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/26/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-05-20** Chapter 104, Acts, Regular Session, 2021

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/10398c91-f542-4fec-8720-17defb81fb9c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).