---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to the Secondary School Activities Commission and participation by home schooled students"
description: "Relating to the Secondary School Activities Commission and participation by home schooled students"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2020"
identifier: "HB 3127"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3127 (2020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 32
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2020-01-08"
last_action: "2020-04-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bbc66abf-aab3-4141-a400-4ac97534b76a"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3127&year=2020&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "1f88fff37810ea9b5822557db873be0ecb6d72d78ecd0e3cbc5d0f1f625fe605"
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 3127 (2020) — Relating to the Secondary School Activities Commission and participation by home schooled students

## 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=HB3127%20SUB.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=3127)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3127%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=3127)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3127%20intr.htm&yr=2020&sesstype=RS&i=3127)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **61–38** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **32–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ellington — primary (person)
- Fast — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Kessinger — cosponsor (person)
- Porterfield — cosponsor (person)
- Wilson — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-01-08** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2020-01-08** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-08** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2020-01-08** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2020-02-19** By substitute, do pass
- **2020-02-20** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-02-24** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2020-02-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-02-24** Passed House (Roll No. 295) `passage`
- **2020-02-24** Communicated to Senate
- **2020-02-28** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2020-02-28** Immediate consideration
- **2020-02-28** Committee reference dispensed
- **2020-02-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2020-02-29** On 2nd reading
- **2020-02-29** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2020-03-02** On 3rd reading
- **2020-03-02** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2020-03-02** Passed Senate (Roll No. 371) `passage`
- **2020-03-02** Communicated to House
- **2020-03-02** Completed legislative action
- **2020-03-02** House received Senate message
- **2020-03-05** To Governor 3/5/20 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-05** To Governor 3/5/20 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-05** To Governor 3/5/20 `executive-receipt`
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - Senate Journal
- **2020-03-07** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 - House Journal
- **2020-03-25** Approved by Governor 3/25/20 `executive-signature`
- **2020-04-15** Chapter 116, Acts, Regular Session, 2020

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bbc66abf-aab3-4141-a400-4ac97534b76a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).