---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to increasing monitoring of special education classrooms"
description: "Relating to increasing monitoring of special education classrooms"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 3271"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3271 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mazzocchi"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 39
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-02-03"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/61ab798f-a3d5-4107-bfd4-e4e6ebd61581"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3271&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "f6153695bacfd9571a8ecc9fe9342f3cc1bb36b35e8bbd4c69dbaca62862ede3"
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 3271 (2023) — Relating to increasing monitoring of special education classrooms

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3271%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3271)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3271%20sub%20eng.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3271)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3271%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3271)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3271%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3271)
5. **hb3271 hfa statler 2-25 _1 revised adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb3271 hfa statler 2-25 _1 revised adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mazzocchi — primary (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Fast — cosponsor (person)
- Holstein — cosponsor (person)
- Horst — cosponsor (person)
- Keaton — cosponsor (person)
- Kimble — cosponsor (person)
- Longanacre — cosponsor (person)
- Statler — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)
- Warner — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-03** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-02-03** To Education then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-03** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-02-03** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-13** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-13** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-23** By substitute, do pass
- **2023-02-24** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-24** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-25** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-25** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-25** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-02-27** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-27** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-27** Passed House (Roll No. 301) `passage`
- **2023-02-27** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-02-28** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-28** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-28** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-02** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-06** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-07** On 1st reading
- **2023-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-08** On 2nd reading
- **2023-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-09** On 3rd reading
- **2023-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 467) `passage`
- **2023-03-09** Communicated to House
- **2023-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-11** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/20/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/20/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-20** To Governor 3/20/2023 `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 143, 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/61ab798f-a3d5-4107-bfd4-e4e6ebd61581`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).