---
type: "Bill"
title: "Teacher, School Personnel, and State Police Pay Raise"
description: "Teacher, School Personnel, and State Police Pay Raise"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 4765"
citation: "West Virginia HB 4765 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 50
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-23"
last_action: "2026-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2fd67a4d-bbfc-4432-a4a2-b58a0720eef1"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4765&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "e0dd55f1eed47ce89cdda246960201bb81353b563ccf9f6deb89b122d2804fbe"
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 4765 (2026) — Teacher, School Personnel, and State Police Pay Raise

## 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=hb4765%20eng.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4765)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4765%20enr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4765)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4765%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=4765)
4. **hb4765 s fin am _1 3-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/com_amends/hb4765%20s%20fin%20am%20_1%203-10%20adopted.htm)
5. **hb4765 sfa barrett _1 3-12 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/floor_amends/hb4765%20sfa%20%20barrett%20_1%203-12%20adopted.htm)
6. **hb4765 sfat barrett _1 3-12 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2026/RS/floor_amends/hb4765%20sfat%20barrett%20_1%203-12%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- PASSAGE — **95–0** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **34–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Hanshaw — primary (person)
- Hornbuckle — cosponsor (person)
- Howell, G. — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-01-23** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2026-01-23** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-01-23** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2026-01-23** To House Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-16** Do pass
- **2026-02-17** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-02-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-02-18** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-02-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-02-18** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2026-02-18** Amendment ruled not germane
- **2026-02-18** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2026-02-18** Amendment ruled not germane
- **2026-02-18** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2026-02-18** Amendment ruled not germane
- **2026-02-18** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2026-02-18** Amendment ruled not germane
- **2026-02-19** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2026-02-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-02-19** Passed House (Roll No. 130) `passage`
- **2026-02-19** Communicated to Senate
- **2026-02-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2026-02-20** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-20** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-11** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-11** Immediate consideration
- **2026-03-11** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2026-03-12** On 2nd reading
- **2026-03-12** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2026-03-13** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2026-03-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2026-03-13** Committee amendment reported
- **2026-03-13** Amendments to committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2026-03-13** Committee amendment as amended adopted (Voice vote)
- **2026-03-13** Passed Senate (Roll No. 548) `passage`
- **2026-03-13** Title amendment adopted
- **2026-03-13** Senate requests House to concur
- **2026-03-14** House received Senate message
- **2026-03-14** House refused to concur; requested Senate to recede (Voice)
- **2026-03-14** Communicated to Senate
- **2026-03-14** House Message received
- **2026-03-14** Senate receded and passed (Roll No. 715)
- **2026-03-14** Communicated to House
- **2026-03-14** Completed legislative action
- **2026-03-25** To Governor 3/25/2026 `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-14** To Governor 3/25/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-14** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2026-04-01** Approved by Governor 4/1/2026 `executive-signature`
- **2026-06-29** Chapter 259, 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/2fd67a4d-bbfc-4432-a4a2-b58a0720eef1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).