---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to school attendance and student participation in 4-H activities"
description: "Relating to school attendance and student participation in 4-H activities"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 581"
citation: "West Virginia SB 581 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Oliverio"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 47
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-24"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b7b0147-ceb4-4d7c-9105-8c9ec116ad64"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=581&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "e20923f6dfbcd393e9ffa7997aa5f79639aded0b7935d12a3d575aeae89100e9"
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 581 (2025) — Relating to school attendance and student participation in 4-H activities

## 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=sb581%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=581)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb581%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=581)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb581%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=581)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb581%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=581)
5. **sb581 h edu am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb581%20h%20edu%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)
6. **sb581 hfat ellington 4-11 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb581%20hfat%20ellington%204-11%20adopted.htm)
7. **sb581 sfa martin _1 4-12 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb581%20sfa%20martin%20_1%204-12%20adopted.htm)
8. **sb581 sfa rucker _1 3-5 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb581%20sfa%20rucker%20_1%203-5%20adopted.htm)
9. **sb581 sfat martin _1 4-12 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb581%20sfat%20martin%20_1%204-12%20adopted.htm)
10. **sb581 sfat rucker _1 3-5 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb581%20sfat%20rucker%20_1%203-5%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **99–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Oliverio — primary (person)
- Clements — cosponsor (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Garcia — cosponsor (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
- Hart — cosponsor (person)
- Martin — cosponsor (person)
- Morris — cosponsor (person)
- Thorne — cosponsor (person)
- Woodrum — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-24** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-24** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-24** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28** Committee substitute reported
- **2025-03-03** On 1st reading
- **2025-03-03** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-04** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-05** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2025-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-05** Floor amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-03-05** Passed Senate (Roll No. 63) `passage`
- **2025-03-05** Title amendment adopted
- **2025-03-05** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-06** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-06** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-06** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-06** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Markup Discussion
- **2025-04-08** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-09** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-04-10** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Passed House (Roll No. 511) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-12** Senate amended House amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 576)
- **2025-04-12** 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. 636)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-21** To Governor 4/21/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/21/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-24** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/24/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 86, 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/8b7b0147-ceb4-4d7c-9105-8c9ec116ad64`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).