---
type: "Bill"
title: "Making Supplemental Appropriation to State Board of Education"
description: "Making Supplemental Appropriation to State Board of Education"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 4575"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4575 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McGeehan"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 37
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2026-01-19"
last_action: "2026-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9313fdde-2107-485c-84f7-3723fe0597df"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4575&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "1d767b7033126fc612ca3ef8de31f7f95ed12721b13aa134485240b9074b6da2"
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 4575 (2026) — Making Supplemental Appropriation to State Board of Education

## Version chain

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

1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4575%20org%20eng.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4575)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4575%20org%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4575)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4575%20org%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4575)
4. **Originating in Committee** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4575%20org.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4575)
5. **hb4575 s fin am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/com_amends/hb4575%20s%20fin%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)
6. **hb4575 sfa weld _1 2-20 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/floor_amends/hb4575%20sfa%20weld%20_1%202-20%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE-SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION — **92–2** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **94–0** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- SUSPEND CONSTITUTIONAL RULE — **90–4** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **27–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McGeehan — primary (person)
- Criss — cosponsor (person)
- Dean — cosponsor (person)
- Riley — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-19** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2026-01-19** Originating in House Finance
- **2026-01-19** Reference dispensed
- **2026-01-19** Immediate consideration
- **2026-01-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-01-19** Dispensed with Constitutional Rule (Roll No. 7)
- **2026-01-19** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-01-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-01-19** Passed House (Roll No. 8) `passage`
- **2026-01-19** Effective from passage (Roll No. 9)
- **2026-01-19** Communicated to Senate
- **2026-01-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2026-01-20** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-20** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-18** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-19** On 1st reading
- **2026-02-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-20** On 2nd reading
- **2026-02-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-20** Committee Amendment Reported
- **2026-02-20** Amendment to committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2026-02-20** Committee amendment as amended adopted (Voice vote)
- **2026-02-21** On 3rd reading
- **2026-02-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-21** Passed Senate (Roll No. 193) `passage`
- **2026-02-21** Effective from passage (Roll No. 194)
- **2026-02-21** Senate requests House to concur
- **2026-02-27** House received Senate message
- **2026-02-27** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 212)
- **2026-02-27** Effective from passage (Roll No. 213)
- **2026-02-27** Communicated to Senate
- **2026-02-27** Completed legislative action
- **2026-03-02** House Message received
- **2026-03-04** To Governor 3/2/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/9/2026 `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/9/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-26** Chapter 40, Acts, Regular Session, 2026 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9313fdde-2107-485c-84f7-3723fe0597df`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).