---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requiring high school students to complete course of study in personal finance"
description: "Requiring high school students to complete course of study in personal finance"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 3113"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3113 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Martin"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 41
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-27"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/95608657-b43d-4ca1-9353-957f8647773f"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3113&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "6c27aec6806b26e4cb151d36f038750e6806bd42713beee376560b15a8e47071"
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 3113 (2023) — Requiring high school students to complete course of study in personal finance

## 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=hb3113%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3113)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3113%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3113)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3113%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3113)
4. **hb3113 hfat ellington 3-2 adopted adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb3113 hfat ellington 3-2 adopted adopted.htm)
5. **hb3113 hfat ellington 3-2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb3113 hfat ellington 3-2 adopted.htm)
6. **hb3113 s ed am _1 2-17 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/hb3113 s ed am _1 2-17 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Martin — primary (person)
- Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
- Clark — cosponsor (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Ferrell — cosponsor (person)
- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
- Howell — cosponsor (person)
- Mazzocchi — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)
- Toney — cosponsor (person)
- Tully — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-27** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-27** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-27** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** By substitute, do pass
- **2023-02-10** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-13** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-13** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-14** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-14** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-14** Passed House (Roll No. 136) `passage`
- **2023-02-14** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-02-15** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-15** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-15** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-22** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-23** On 1st reading
- **2023-02-23** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-24** On 2nd reading
- **2023-02-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-24** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-02-25** On 3rd reading
- **2023-02-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-25** Passed Senate (Roll No. 279) `passage`
- **2023-02-25** Senate requests House to concur
- **2023-03-02** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-02** House concurred in Senate amend with title amend, passed (Roll No. 405)
- **2023-03-02** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-03** House Message received
- **2023-03-03** Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 356)
- **2023-03-03** Communicated to House
- **2023-03-03** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-04** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/13/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/13/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-13** To Governor 3/13/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/23/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/23/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-23** Approved by Governor 3/23/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 141, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/95608657-b43d-4ca1-9353-957f8647773f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).