---
type: "Bill"
title: "Expanding cardiac arrest provisions to be applicable to elementary schools"
description: "Expanding cardiac arrest provisions to be applicable to elementary schools"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 652"
citation: "West Virginia SB 652 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Grady"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 36
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-03"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a4519870-0895-4485-9d07-d772e35989e9"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=652&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "7bb9a6446378cb2ce179ea31cb90c42b8a01c36d00d42fcdeee53c10658860a2"
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 652 (2025) — Expanding cardiac arrest provisions to be applicable to elementary schools

## 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=sb652%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=652)
2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb652%20sub2.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=652)
3. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb652%20sub2%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=652)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb652%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=652)

## Votes

- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **94–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Grady — primary (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-03** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-03** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-03** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-07** Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
- **2025-03-07** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
- **2025-03-24** Immediate consideration
- **2025-03-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-25** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-26** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-26** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-26** Passed Senate (Roll No. 187) `passage`
- **2025-03-26** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-26** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-26** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-26** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** Do pass
- **2025-04-09** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Passed House (Roll No. 514) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-11** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-17** To Governor 4/17/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/17/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-24** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 88, 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/a4519870-0895-4485-9d07-d772e35989e9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).