---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to school zones of public or private schools"
description: "Relating to school zones of public or private schools"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2678"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2678 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)", "Roads and Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gearheart"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 38
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-20"
last_action: "2025-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/91bdfc5d-cddd-47f4-8e0a-0cfdbca82687"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2678&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "8f3ec0d3dc0edd37cc1cf8fd7f157122459ee712431dcf1b5c026ad21b38faf8"
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 2678 (2025) — Relating to school zones of public or private schools

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2678%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2678)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2678%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2678)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2678%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2678)
4. **hb2678 s t_i am _1 4-1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2678%20s%20t_i%20am%20_1%204-1%20adopted.htm)
5. **hb2678 s trn amt _1 4-1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2678%20s%20trn%20amt%20_1%204-1%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

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

## Sponsors

- Gearheart — primary (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Butler — cosponsor (person)
- Canterbury — cosponsor (person)
- Dillon — cosponsor (person)
- Drennan — cosponsor (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Funkhouser — cosponsor (person)
- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
- Ridenour — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-20** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-20** To Energy and Public Works
- **2025-02-20** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-20** To House Energy and Public Works `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-04** Do pass
- **2025-03-05** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-05** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-06** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-06** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-07** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-07** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-07** Passed House (Roll No. 41) `passage`
- **2025-03-07** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-11** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-11** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2025-03-11** To Transportation and Infrastructure
- **2025-04-02** Reported do pass, with amendment and title amendment `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-02** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-02** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-03** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-03** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-03** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-04** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-04** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-04** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 313) `passage`
- **2025-04-04** Senate requests House to concur
- **2025-04-12** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-12** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 633)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-22** To Governor 4/22/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-25** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-30** Chapter 100, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/91bdfc5d-cddd-47f4-8e0a-0cfdbca82687`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).