republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2023/hb-2597.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Amending performance evaluations of professional personnel	Amending performance evaluations of professional personnel	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2023	HB 2597	West Virginia HB 2597 (2023)	bill	Education (K12)	enacted	Toney	3	35	1	2023-01-17	2023-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/dfeafd08-3b48-4cac-8a53-ac58b28ddccd	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2597&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	1332d75f9576bdd84b4495a6cda2bf2da2bc0d82b2757c008ed0dc6baf59a8ce	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 2597 (2023) — Amending performance evaluations of professional personnel

Version chain

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

1. Enrolled Version (committee substitute) — source
2. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
3. hb2597 hfat toney 1-27 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/hb2597 hfat toney 1-27 adopted.htm)

Votes

• Passage — 31–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Toney — primary (person)
• Brooks — cosponsor (person)
• Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• Ellington — cosponsor (person)
• Foggin — cosponsor (person)
• Hardy — cosponsor (person)
• Heckert — cosponsor (person)
• Kirby — cosponsor (person)
• Shamblin — cosponsor (person)
• Vance — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-17 Filed for introduction filing
• 2023-01-17 To Education referral-committee
• 2023-01-17 Introduced in House introduction
• 2023-01-17 To House Education referral-committee
• 2023-01-24 Do pass
• 2023-01-25 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2023-01-25 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2023-01-26 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2023-01-26 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-01-27 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2023-01-27 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-01-27 Passed House (Roll No. 46) passage
• 2023-01-27 Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2023-01-27 Communicated to Senate
• 2023-01-30 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2023-01-30 To Education referral-committee
• 2023-01-30 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. 358) passage
• 2023-03-03 Communicated to House
• 2023-03-03 Completed legislative action
• 2023-03-04 House received Senate message
• 2023-03-09 To Governor 3/9/2023 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2023-03-09 To Governor 3/9/2023 executive-receipt
• 2023-03-09 To Governor 3/9/2023 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2023-03-11 Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2023-03-29 Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 executive-signature
• 2023-03-11 Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2023-05-01 Chapter 299, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dfeafd08-3b48-4cac-8a53-ac58b28ddccd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).