---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to making technical corrections to the special education code"
description: "Relating to making technical corrections to the special education code"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 5158"
citation: "West Virginia HB 5158 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Toney"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 38
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-01-25"
last_action: "2024-04-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/420129ae-0be7-4868-ade9-0f22207fd136"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5158&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "2c17e60c75b22a2bc2dd16d7d3e2aa990d901d78d597211019d592c6a20389b6"
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 5158 (2024) — Relating to making technical corrections to the special education code

## 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=hb5158%20sub.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5158)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5158%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5158)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb5158%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=5158)
4. **hb5158 s ed am _1 3-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/hb5158%20s%20ed%20am%20_1%203-6%20adopted.htm)
5. **hb5158 s ed amt _1 3-6 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/com_amends/hb5158%20s%20ed%20amt%20_1%203-6%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Toney — primary (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Statler — cosponsor (person)
- Vance — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-25** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-25** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-25** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-02** By substitute, do pass
- **2024-02-05** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-06** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-02-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-02-07** Passed House (Roll No. 114) `passage`
- **2024-02-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-02-08** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-08** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-08** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-06** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-06** Immediate consideration
- **2024-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2024-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-07** Committee amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-03-08** On 3rd reading
- **2024-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-08** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 444) `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2024-03-08** House received Senate message
- **2024-03-08** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 702)
- **2024-03-08** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-08** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-09** House Message received
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-21** To Governor 3/21/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/21/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/24 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-22** Chapter 116, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/420129ae-0be7-4868-ade9-0f22207fd136`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).