---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating generally to savings and investment programs offered by state"
description: "Relating generally to savings and investment programs offered by state"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 294"
citation: "West Virginia SB 294 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Phillips"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 44
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2021-02-13"
last_action: "2021-05-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c91ab9df-ce0e-4ecc-b094-735ad47609bc"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=294&year=2021&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "12b80843c773853f3331e412da7438fa1289319ac9ad3c92e9c753f85f45198a"
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 294 (2021) — Relating generally to savings and investment programs offered by state

## 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=SB294%20SUB1.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=294)
2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB294%20SUB2.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=294)
3. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB294%20SUB2%20ENR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=294)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB294%20INTR.htm&yr=2021&sesstype=RS&i=294)
5. **SB294 HFIN AM 4-1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2021/RS/com_amends/SB294 HFIN AM 4-1 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **0–0** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Phillips — primary (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Jeffries — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2021-02-13** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-13** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2021-02-13** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-24** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
- **2021-02-24** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-03** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
- **2021-03-04** On 1st reading
- **2021-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-03-05** On 2nd reading
- **2021-03-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-03-08** On 3rd reading
- **2021-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-03-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 83) `passage`
- **2021-03-08** Ordered to House
- **2021-03-09** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2021-03-09** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-09** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-26** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2021-03-26** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-01** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2021-04-02** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2021-04-05** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-05** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2021-04-05** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2021-04-06** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2021-04-06** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2021-04-06** Passed House (Roll No. 449) `passage`
- **2021-04-06** Effective from passage (Roll No. 450)
- **2021-04-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2021-04-07** House Message received
- **2021-04-07** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 333)
- **2021-04-07** Effective from passage (Roll No. 333)
- **2021-04-07** Communicated to House
- **2021-04-07** Completed legislative action
- **2021-04-07** House received Senate message
- **2021-04-14** To Governor 4/14/21 `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/14/21 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-10** To Governor 4/14/21 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2021-04-28** Approved by Governor 4/28/21 `executive-signature`
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/28/21 - Senate Journal
- **2021-04-10** Approved by Governor 4/28/21 - House Journal
- **2021-05-24** Chapter 128, 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/c91ab9df-ce0e-4ecc-b094-735ad47609bc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).