---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to student purchase and refunds of course material"
description: "Relating to student purchase and refunds of course material"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 3555"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3555 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Statler"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-02-21"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ca0ecf4e-e741-4220-88a7-90b8d1b761c0"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3555&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "4435d91951af239903662b0f83e5aa663bf3df7372d247346247d122442952da"
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 3555 (2023) — Relating to student purchase and refunds of course material

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3555%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3555)
2. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3555%20org.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3555)
3. **hb3555 s ed amt _1 3-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/hb3555 s ed amt _1 3-7 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Statler — primary (person)
- Foggin — cosponsor (person)
- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
- Lucas — cosponsor (person)
- Mazzocchi — cosponsor (person)
- Pritt, E. — cosponsor (person)
- Toney — cosponsor (person)
- Willis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-21** Originating in House Education
- **2023-02-21** Do pass
- **2023-02-22** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-22** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-23** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-23** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-24** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-24** Passed House (Roll No. 248) `passage`
- **2023-02-24** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-02-25** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-25** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-25** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-07** Reported do pass, with amendments and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-07** Immediate consideration
- **2023-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-08** On 2nd reading
- **2023-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-08** Committee amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-09** On 3rd reading
- **2023-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-09** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 478) `passage`
- **2023-03-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2023-03-11** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-11** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 739)
- **2023-03-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-11** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-11** House Message received
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/27/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-27** To Governor 3/27/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/27/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 184, 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/ca0ecf4e-e741-4220-88a7-90b8d1b761c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).