---
type: "Bill"
title: "Establishing Troops-to-Teachers Program"
description: "Establishing Troops-to-Teachers Program"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 765"
citation: "West Virginia SB 765 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Willis"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 46
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-17"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f348667-ab3e-4167-a756-d6b429639f2d"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=765&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "39e22deb4ead7aa07d15ee574f6fee16de69c76227daea701e1de13065456b22"
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 765 (2025) — Establishing Troops-to-Teachers Program

## 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=sb765%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=765)
2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb765%20sub2.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=765)
3. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb765%20sub2%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=765)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb765%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=765)
5. **sb765 hfa ridenour 4-8 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb765%20hfa%20ridenour%204-8%20_1%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- RECEDE — **59–39** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **93–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Willis — primary (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Fuller — cosponsor (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Thorne — cosponsor (person)
- Weld — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-17** To Military then Education
- **2025-03-17** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-17** To Military
- **2025-03-20** Committee substitute reported, but first to Education
- **2025-03-20** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
- **2025-03-27** Immediate consideration
- **2025-03-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-28** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-29** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-29** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-29** Passed Senate (Roll No. 232) `passage`
- **2025-03-29** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-31** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-31** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-31** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Markup Discussion
- **2025-04-04** Do pass
- **2025-04-04** Reference dispensed
- **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** 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. 435) `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-11** House Message received
- **2025-04-11** Senate refused to concur; requested House recede(Voice vote)
- **2025-04-11** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-12** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-12** House receded (Roll No. 602)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-21** To Governor 4/21/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-30** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 90, 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/7f348667-ab3e-4167-a756-d6b429639f2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).