---
type: "Bill"
title: "Adding State Fire Marshals to statute included with law enforcement and first responders that receive information on school safety requirements"
description: "Adding State Fire Marshals to statute included with law enforcement and first responders that receive information on school safety requirements"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 275"
citation: "West Virginia SB 275 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Trump"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 41
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2023-01-18"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6cd212d8-9d06-43e3-a63f-6f5fe20d092d"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=275&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "9a950e309d6242a0d6eb27517b32a51a9c8bf3d538e79540c65df0c2fa477ef6"
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 275 (2023) — Adding State Fire Marshals to statute included with law enforcement and first responders that receive information on school safety requirements

## 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=sb275%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=275)
2. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb275%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=275)

## Votes

- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- Passage — **30–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Trump — primary (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Phillips — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-18** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-18** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-18** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-01-18** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-31** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-01** On 1st reading
- **2023-02-01** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-02** On 2nd reading
- **2023-02-02** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-03** On 3rd reading
- **2023-02-03** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-03** Passed Senate (Roll No. 124) `passage`
- **2023-02-03** Ordered to House
- **2023-02-06** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-02-06** To Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services then Education
- **2023-02-06** To House Fire Departments and Emergency Medical Services `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-09** Do pass, but first to Education
- **2023-02-09** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-13** Do pass
- **2023-02-14** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-14** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-15** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-15** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-16** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-02-16** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-16** Passed House (Roll No. 163) `passage`
- **2023-02-16** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-02-16** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-02-17** House Message received
- **2023-02-17** Senate concurred in House title amendment (Voice vote)
- **2023-02-17** Passed Senate (Roll No. 196) `passage`
- **2023-02-17** Communicated to House
- **2023-02-17** Completed legislative action
- **2023-02-20** House received Senate message
- **2023-02-20** To Governor 2/20/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-21** To Governor 2/20/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-20** To Governor 2/20/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-02-25** Approved by Governor 2/24/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-02-24** Approved by Governor 2/24/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-02-25** Approved by Governor 2/24/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 127, 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/6cd212d8-9d06-43e3-a63f-6f5fe20d092d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).