---
type: "Bill"
title: "Removing requirement school cooks or custodians have high school diploma or equivalent"
description: "Removing requirement school cooks or custodians have high school diploma or equivalent"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 275"
citation: "West Virginia SB 275 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Oliverio"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 48
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-02-12"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/11fd5dda-2bb7-4436-b46e-2f4477245806"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=275&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "c8c28a554d624d8784e2a4134eb446d918cdeba13310b17ba262dc496ebcecbe"
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 (2025) — Removing requirement school cooks or custodians have high school diploma or equivalent

## 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=sb275%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=275)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb275%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=275)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb275%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=275)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb275%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=275)
5. **sb275 h edu am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb275%20h%20edu%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)
6. **sb275 sfa barrett _1 2-21 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb275%20sfa%20%20barrett%20_1%202-21%20adopted.htm)
7. **sb275 sfat barrett _1 2-21 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb275%20sfat%20barrett%20%20_1%202-21%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **97–2** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **98–1** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **96–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Oliverio — primary (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Thorne — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-12** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-12** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19** Committee substitute reported
- **2025-02-20** On 1st reading
- **2025-02-20** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-02-21** On 2nd reading
- **2025-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-02-21** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-02-24** On 3rd reading
- **2025-02-24** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-02-24** Passed Senate (Roll No. 22) `passage`
- **2025-02-24** Title amendment adopted
- **2025-02-24** Effective from passage (Roll No. 23)
- **2025-02-24** Ordered to House
- **2025-02-25** House received Senate message
- **2025-02-25** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-25** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-27** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-28** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-28** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-31** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-31** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-31** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-03-31** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-01** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-01** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-01** Passed House (Roll No. 302) `passage`
- **2025-04-01** Effective from passage (Roll No. 303)
- **2025-04-01** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** House Message received
- **2025-04-12** Senate refused to concur; requested House recede(Voice vote)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-12** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-12** House receded (Roll No. 635)
- **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 211, 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/11fd5dda-2bb7-4436-b46e-2f4477245806`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).