---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to elementary behavior intervention and safety"
description: "Relating to elementary behavior intervention and safety"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 199"
citation: "West Virginia SB 199 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Grady"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 44
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-12"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0f8b4a83-057a-4f48-92d2-901603ef7219"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=199&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "900f2a75c409c5784763151ac0a3f66d906534f142c45620fbc0ec817ace676c"
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 SB 199 (2025) — Relating to elementary behavior intervention and safety

## 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=sb199%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=199)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb199%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=199)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb199%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=199)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb199%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=199)
5. **sb199 h edu am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb199%20h%20edu%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)
6. **sb199 sfa grady _1 3-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb199%20sfa%20grady%20_1%203-7%20adopted.htm)
7. **sb199 sfat grady _1 3-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb199%20sfat%20grady%20_1%203-7%20adopted.htm)
8. **sb199 sfat martin _1 3-26 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb199%20sfat%20martin%20_1%203-26%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **94–3** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **94–3** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Grady — primary (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Thorne — cosponsor (person)
- Willis — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-12** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-12** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05** Committee substitute reported
- **2025-03-06** On 1st reading
- **2025-03-06** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-07** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-07** Floor amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-03-10** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-10** Passed Senate (Roll No. 80) `passage`
- **2025-03-10** Title amendment adopted
- **2025-03-10** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-11** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-11** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-11** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-18** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-20** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-21** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-21** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-24** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-24** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-24** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-03-24** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-03-25** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-25** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-25** Passed House (Roll No. 179) `passage`
- **2025-03-25** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-26** House Message received
- **2025-03-26** Senate amended House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 173)
- **2025-03-26** Senate requests House to concur
- **2025-04-03** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-03** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 373)
- **2025-04-03** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-03** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-04** House Message received
- **2025-04-08** To Governor 4/8/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-10** To Governor 4/8/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-15** Approved by Governor 4/15/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/15/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 47, 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/0f8b4a83-057a-4f48-92d2-901603ef7219`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).