---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring certain safety measures be taken at public schools"
description: "Requiring certain safety measures be taken at public schools"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 2541"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2541 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (Higher)", "Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Thompson, R."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 39
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2019-01-21"
last_action: "2019-04-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9009a69e-1ba7-4b8c-a96c-b3b314a08dc8"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2541&year=2019&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "e54e03716a9e1b5f3f5f6fd25950a0c67a57106955c9237c3ed40a0920990fc8"
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 HB 2541 (2019) — Requiring certain safety measures be taken at public schools

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2541%20SUB.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2541)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2541%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2541)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2541%20intr.htm&yr=2019&sesstype=RS&i=2541)
4. **hb2541 s ed am _1 3-5 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2019/RS/com_amends/hb2541 s ed am _1 3-5 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Thompson, R. — primary (person)
- Dean — cosponsor (person)
- Doyle — cosponsor (person)
- Evans — cosponsor (person)
- Hicks — cosponsor (person)
- Hornbuckle — cosponsor (person)
- Lovejoy — cosponsor (person)
- Paynter — cosponsor (person)
- Pyles — cosponsor (person)
- Zukoff — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-21** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2019-01-21** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-21** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2019-01-21** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-19** By substitute, do pass
- **2019-02-20** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-02-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-02-22** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2019-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-02-22** Passed House (Roll No. 262) `passage`
- **2019-02-22** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-02-23** House Message received
- **2019-02-23** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2019-02-23** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-23** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-05** Reported do pass, with amendments `committee-passage`
- **2019-03-06** On 1st reading
- **2019-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2019-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2019-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2019-03-07** Committee amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2019-03-08** On 3rd reading
- **2019-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2019-03-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 436) `passage`
- **2019-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2019-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2019-03-08** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 660)
- **2019-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2019-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2019-03-09** House Message received
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/21/19 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** To Governor 3/21/19 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-21** To Governor 3/21/19 `executive-receipt`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - House Journal
- **2019-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 `executive-signature`
- **2019-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/25/19 - Senate Journal
- **2019-04-11** Chapter 100, Acts, Regular Session, 2019

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9009a69e-1ba7-4b8c-a96c-b3b314a08dc8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).