---
type: "Bill"
title: "To repeal obsolete, conflicting or inoperative provisions of code that pertain to higher education"
description: "To repeal obsolete, conflicting or inoperative provisions of code that pertain to higher education"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 3192"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3192 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (Higher)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-06"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3dea215c-6d97-41e3-a7c6-db16f8b59373"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3192&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "e70feb23ac356fa9997b63e373e128154a8721d705aca2fea2409969f88d1979"
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 3192 (2025) — To repeal obsolete, conflicting or inoperative provisions of code that pertain to higher education

## 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=hb3192%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3192)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3192%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3192)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3192%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3192)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3192%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=3192)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ellington — primary (person)
- Kump — cosponsor (person)
- Statler — cosponsor (person)
- Toney — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-06** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-06** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-06** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** By substitute, do pass
- **2025-03-18** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-19** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-20** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-20** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-20** Passed House (Roll No. 128) `passage`
- **2025-03-20** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-21** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-28** On 1st reading
- **2025-03-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-29** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-31** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-31** Passed Senate (Roll No. 257) `passage`
- **2025-03-31** Communicated to House
- **2025-03-31** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-01** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-02** To Governor 4/2/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-08** Approved by Governor 4/8/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-08** Approved by Governor 4/8/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-08** Approved by Governor 4/8/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-31** Chapter 148, 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/3dea215c-6d97-41e3-a7c6-db16f8b59373`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).