---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to testing and attendance requirements for private, parochial, and church schools"
description: "Relating to testing and attendance requirements for private, parochial, and church schools"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 914"
citation: "West Virginia SB 914 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Roberts"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 43
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-03-24"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29090916-f47a-4475-85ea-c72859dfa030"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=914&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "61fb976bbda87fef459a8d9246063605b76d6fd04aa76e68a2b41caa6e323319"
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 914 (2025) — Relating to testing and attendance requirements for private, parochial, and church 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=sb914%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=914)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb914%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=914)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb914%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=914)
4. **sb914 h edu am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb914%20h%20edu%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)
5. **sb914 hfat ellington 4-11 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb914%20hfat%20ellington%204-11%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–2** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **84–15** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **86–13** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Roberts — primary (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Willis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-24** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-03-24** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-24** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** Committee substitute reported
- **2025-03-31** Immediate consideration
- **2025-03-31** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-01** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-01** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-02** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-02** Passed Senate (Roll No. 290) `passage`
- **2025-04-02** Ordered to House
- **2025-04-03** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-03** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-04-03** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Markup Discussion
- **2025-04-08** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **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`
- **2025-04-10** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-04-10** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Passed House (Roll No. 531) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-11** Effective from passage (Roll No. 532)
- **2025-04-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-12** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 557)
- **2025-04-12** Effective from passage (Roll No. 558)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
- **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`
- **2025-04-29** Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 92, 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/29090916-f47a-4475-85ea-c72859dfa030`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).