---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating generally to practice of optometry"
description: "Relating generally to practice of optometry"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 565"
citation: "West Virginia SB 565 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professions and Occupations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Taylor"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 45
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-21"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bbb0b17a-683f-4c88-8011-a1a1a46716b6"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=565&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "04e5e38bcd55cf03030398268f8b207476f9a687c21c17e88bb5cac8c7f8abf0"
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 565 (2025) — Relating generally to practice of optometry

## 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=sb565%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=565)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb565%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=565)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb565%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=565)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb565%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=565)
5. **Takubo #2 floor amendments adopted (Roll No. 77)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/2025/RS/votes/senate/03-07-0077.pdf)
6. **sb565 h hhr am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb565%20h%20hhr%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)
7. **sb565 hfat worrell 4-9 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb565%20hfat%20worrell%204-9%20adopted.htm)
8. **sb565 sfa takubo _2 3-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb565%20sfa%20takubo%20_2%203-7%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **93–4** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **22–11** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Taylor — primary (person)
- Clements — cosponsor (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-21** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-21** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-21** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-21** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Committee substitute reported
- **2025-03-06** On 1st reading
- **2025-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-07** Takubo #1 floor amendment rejected (Roll No. 76)
- **2025-03-07** Takubo #2 floor amendments adopted (Roll No. 77)
- **2025-03-07** Floor amendment reported
- **2025-03-07** Takubo #3 floor amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
- **2025-03-10** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-10** Passed Senate (Roll No. 86) `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-11** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-11** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-11** To Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Markup Discussion
- **2025-04-04** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-08** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-08** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-04-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-09** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Passed House (Roll No. 432) `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-10** House Message received
- **2025-04-10** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 459)
- **2025-04-10** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-10** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-14** To Governor 4/14/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/14/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/14/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-01** Became law 5/1/2025
- **2025-04-12** Became law without Governor's signature - Senate Journal
- **2025-04-12** Became law without Governor's signature- House Journal
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 198, 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/bbb0b17a-683f-4c88-8011-a1a1a46716b6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).