---
type: "Bill"
title: "Permitting the Legislative Auditor to conduct periodic performance and financial audits of the West Virginia Department of Education"
description: "Permitting the Legislative Auditor to conduct periodic performance and financial audits of the West Virginia Department of Education"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2897"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2897 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 41
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-24"
last_action: "2025-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/483044d1-c4f3-4257-90ae-cd696479409c"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2897&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "29f892847bc1a314c93d0e8003e5fb2e66f70a02954e37fec3c998a7710bc9bd"
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 2897 (2025) — Permitting the Legislative Auditor to conduct periodic performance and financial audits of the West Virginia Department of Education

## 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=hb2897%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2897)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2897%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2897)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2897%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2897)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2897%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2897)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ellington — primary (person)
- Campbell — cosponsor (person)
- Crouse — cosponsor (person)
- Dittman — cosponsor (person)
- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
- Statler — cosponsor (person)
- Toney — cosponsor (person)
- Willis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-24** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-24** To Education then Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-24** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** To House Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-11** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-18** By substitute, do pass, but first to Government Organization
- **2025-03-18** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-26** Do pass
- **2025-03-27** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-27** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-28** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-28** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-31** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-31** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-31** Passed House (Roll No. 273) `passage`
- **2025-03-31** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-01** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-04-01** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-04** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-07** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-08** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 371) `passage`
- **2025-04-08** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-08** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-09** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-14** To Governor 4/14/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-14** To Governor 4/12/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/14/2025 - 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`
- **2025-07-21** Chapter 3, 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/483044d1-c4f3-4257-90ae-cd696479409c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).