---
type: "Bill"
title: "Amending performance evaluations of professional personnel"
description: "Amending performance evaluations of professional personnel"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 2597"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2597 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Toney"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 35
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-17"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfeafd08-3b48-4cac-8a53-ac58b28ddccd"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2597&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "1332d75f9576bdd84b4495a6cda2bf2da2bc0d82b2757c008ed0dc6baf59a8ce"
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 2597 (2023) — Amending performance evaluations of professional personnel

## Version chain

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

1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2597%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2597)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2597%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2597)
3. **hb2597 hfat toney 1-27 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2597 hfat toney 1-27 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **31–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Toney — primary (person)
- Brooks — cosponsor (person)
- Cooper — cosponsor (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Foggin — cosponsor (person)
- Hardy — cosponsor (person)
- Heckert — cosponsor (person)
- Kirby — cosponsor (person)
- Shamblin — cosponsor (person)
- Vance — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-17** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-17** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-17** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-01-17** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-24** Do pass
- **2023-01-25** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-01-25** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-01-26** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-01-26** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-01-27** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-01-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-01-27** Passed House (Roll No. 46) `passage`
- **2023-01-27** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-01-27** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-01-30** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-01-30** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-30** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-01** On 1st reading
- **2023-03-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-02** On 2nd reading
- **2023-03-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-03** On 3rd reading
- **2023-03-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-03** Passed Senate (Roll No. 358) `passage`
- **2023-03-03** Communicated to House
- **2023-03-03** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-04** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-09** To Governor 3/9/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-09** To Governor 3/9/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-09** To Governor 3/9/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 299, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dfeafd08-3b48-4cac-8a53-ac58b28ddccd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).