---
type: "Bill"
title: "Increasing the number of personal leave days that county board of education employees may use"
description: "Increasing the number of personal leave days that county board of education employees may use"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 3547"
citation: "West Virginia HB 3547 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clark"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 44
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-02-14"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/64ee0423-f173-42b3-b96b-67afc8d06238"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3547&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "2f326fedbd7266829a62544a9d3bbfa2ed47832d4ff9be74cadab177838e7457"
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 3547 (2023) — Increasing the number of personal leave days that county board of education employees may use

## Version chain

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

1. **Amendment adopted (Roll No. 189)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/2023/RS/votes/house/00189.pdf)
2. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3547%20eng.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3547)
3. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3547%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3547)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb3547%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=3547)
5. **hb3547 hfa foggin 2-20 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb3547 hfa foggin 2-20 _1 adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **31–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Clark — primary (person)
- Ellington — cosponsor (person)
- Ferrell — cosponsor (person)
- Jennings — cosponsor (person)
- Longanacre — cosponsor (person)
- Maynor — cosponsor (person)
- Toney — cosponsor (person)
- Walker — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-14** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-02-14** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-02-14** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-16** Do pass
- **2023-02-16** 2nd reference dispensed
- **2023-02-17** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-20** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-20** Amendment adopted (Roll No. 189)
- **2023-02-21** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-21** Placed on House Calendar
- **2023-02-23** On 3rd reading, House Calendar
- **2023-02-23** From House Calendar, 3rd reading, placed on Special Calendar
- **2023-02-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-23** Passed House (Roll No. 229) `passage`
- **2023-02-23** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-02-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-24** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-24** 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. 374) `passage`
- **2023-03-03** Effective July 1, 2023 (Roll No. 374)
- **2023-03-03** Senate requests House to concur in changed effective date
- **2023-03-06** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-06** House concurred in Senate effective date (Voice)
- **2023-03-06** Effective July 1, 2023 (Roll No. 500)
- **2023-03-06** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-03** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-07** House Message received
- **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** To Governor 3/20/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 302, 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/64ee0423-f173-42b3-b96b-67afc8d06238`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).