--- type: "Bill" title: "Expanding grade levels of personal finance course requirements needed for graduation" description: "Expanding grade levels of personal finance course requirements needed for graduation" jurisdiction: "us/states/wv" legislature: "West Virginia Legislature" session: "2025" identifier: "SB 283" citation: "West Virginia SB 283 (2025)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Education (K12)"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Grady"] version_count: 4 action_count: 42 vote_count: 2 first_action: "2025-02-12" last_action: "2025-08-08" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/310178d8-92a3-42b4-927d-3957bda82e0a" source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=283&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill" source_hash: "1152c08a1eb2aa108b6ed760cb02ae1373e94cf8d4e38b27594dafd42eaa0802" 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 283 (2025) — Expanding grade levels of personal finance course requirements needed for graduation ## 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=sb283%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=283) 2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb283%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=283) 3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb283%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=283) 4. **sb283 h edu am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb283%20h%20edu%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm) ## Votes - PASSAGE — **97–0** (pass) · lower - Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Grady — primary (person) - Deeds — cosponsor (person) - Hamilton — cosponsor (person) - Woelfel — cosponsor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing` - **2025-02-12** To Education `referral-committee` - **2025-02-12** Introduced in Senate `introduction` - **2025-02-12** To Education `referral-committee` - **2025-02-19** Committee substitute reported - **2025-02-20** On 1st reading - **2025-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1` - **2025-02-21** On 2nd reading - **2025-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2` - **2025-02-24** On 3rd reading - **2025-02-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3` - **2025-02-24** Passed Senate (Roll No. 26) `passage` - **2025-02-24** Effective from passage (Roll No. 27) - **2025-02-24** Ordered to House - **2025-02-25** House received Senate message - **2025-02-25** Introduced in House `introduction` - **2025-02-25** To Education `referral-committee` - **2025-02-25** To House Education `referral-committee` - **2025-03-18** Markup Discussion - **2025-03-20** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage` - **2025-03-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar - **2025-03-21** Read 1st time `reading-1` - **2025-03-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar - **2025-03-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2` - **2025-03-24** Amendment reported by the Clerk - **2025-03-24** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote) - **2025-03-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar - **2025-03-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3` - **2025-03-25** Passed House (Roll No. 180) `passage` - **2025-03-25** Communicated to Senate - **2025-03-26** House Message received - **2025-03-26** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 174) - **2025-03-26** Communicated to House - **2025-03-26** Completed legislative action - **2025-03-26** Effective ninety days from passage - **2025-03-26** House received Senate message - **2025-03-31** To Governor 3/31/2025 `executive-receipt` - **2025-03-31** To Governor 3/31/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt` - **2025-04-01** Approved by Governor 4/1/2025 `executive-signature` - **2025-04-02** Approved by Governor 4/1/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature` - **2025-04-02** Approved by Governor 4/1/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature` - **2025-08-08** Chapter 144, 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/310178d8-92a3-42b4-927d-3957bda82e0a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).