republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2023/hb-2602.md

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Bill	Reestablishing certain specialized school service personnel classifications	Reestablishing certain specialized school service personnel classifications	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2023	HB 2602	West Virginia HB 2602 (2023)	bill	Education (K12)	enacted	Toney	2	37	1	2023-01-17	2023-05-01	openstates	ocd-bill/3319e70b-a8e3-4336-a8cd-f2fba650c199	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2602&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	8d0c81a3d437888cfd0c3db2a0569a500f32e3383cc7fc1bb1abd0c7894b374d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 2602 (2023) — Reestablishing certain specialized school service personnel classifications

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

Votes

• Passage — 31–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Toney — primary (person)
• Cooper — cosponsor (person)
• Ellington — cosponsor (person)
• Kirby — cosponsor (person)
• Shamblin — cosponsor (person)
• Statler — 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 then Finance referral-committee
• 2023-01-17 Introduced in House introduction
• 2023-01-17 To House Education referral-committee
• 2023-01-19 Do pass
• 2023-01-19 2nd reference dispensed
• 2023-01-20 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2023-01-20 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2023-01-23 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2023-01-23 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-01-24 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2023-01-24 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-01-24 Passed House (Roll No. 29) passage
• 2023-01-24 Effective from passage (Roll No. 30)
• 2023-01-24 Communicated to Senate
• 2023-01-25 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2023-01-25 To Education referral-committee
• 2023-01-25 To Education referral-committee
• 2023-02-07 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2023-02-08 On 1st reading
• 2023-02-08 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2023-02-09 On 2nd reading
• 2023-02-09 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2023-02-10 On 3rd reading
• 2023-02-10 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2023-02-10 Passed Senate (Roll No. 167) passage
• 2023-02-10 Effective from passage (Roll No. 167)
• 2023-02-10 Communicated to House
• 2023-02-10 Completed legislative action
• 2023-02-13 House received Senate message
• 2023-02-16 To Governor 2/16/2023 executive-receipt
• 2023-02-17 To Governor 2/16/2023 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2023-02-17 To Governor 2/16/2023 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2023-02-23 Approved by Governor 2/22/2023 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2023-02-22 Approved by Governor 2/22/2023 executive-signature
• 2023-02-27 Approved by Governor 2/22/2023 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2023-05-01 Chapter 300, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3319e70b-a8e3-4336-a8cd-f2fba650c199. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).