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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Making it felony offense for school employee or volunteer to engage in sexual contact with students"
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description: "Making it felony offense for school employee or volunteer to engage in sexual contact with students"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
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legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
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session: "2023"
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identifier: "SB 187"
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citation: "West Virginia SB 187 (2023)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Crime"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Clements"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 45
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2023-01-13"
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last_action: "2023-05-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c904108a-adca-47e9-bd22-fd73694d2517"
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source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=187&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
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source_hash: "940f1d3852429d19cee901377bd276c8798bf96b01c9015742ba523a2ce53db7"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
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---
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# West Virginia SB 187 (2023) — Making it felony offense for school employee or volunteer to engage in sexual contact with students
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb187%20sub1.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=187)
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2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb187%20sub2.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=187)
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3. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb187%20sub2%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=187)
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4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb187%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=187)
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5. **sb187 h jud am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/sb187 h jud am _1 adopted.htm)
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6. **sb187 hfat capito 3-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/sb187 hfat capito 3-10 adopted.htm)
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## Votes
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- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Clements — primary (person)
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- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
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- Grady — cosponsor (person)
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- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
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- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
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- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
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- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
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- Stuart — cosponsor (person)
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- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-01-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
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- **2023-01-13** To Education then Judiciary `referral-committee`
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- **2023-01-13** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
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- **2023-01-13** To Education `referral-committee`
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- **2023-01-17** Committee substitute reported, but first to Judiciary
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- **2023-01-17** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
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- **2023-02-08** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
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- **2023-02-09** On 1st reading
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- **2023-02-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
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- **2023-02-10** On 2nd reading
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- **2023-02-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2023-02-13** On 3rd reading
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- **2023-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2023-02-13** Passed Senate (Roll No. 170) `passage`
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- **2023-02-13** Ordered to House
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- **2023-02-14** Introduced in House `introduction`
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- **2023-02-14** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
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- **2023-02-14** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-08** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
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- **2023-03-08** Immediate consideration
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- **2023-03-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
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- **2023-03-09** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
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- **2023-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2023-03-10** On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar
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- **2023-03-10** Amendment reported by the Clerk
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- **2023-03-10** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
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- **2023-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2023-03-10** Passed House (Roll No. 639) `passage`
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- **2023-03-10** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
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- **2023-03-10** Communicated to Senate
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- **2023-03-11** House Message received
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- **2023-03-11** Senate refused to concur; requested House recede(Voice vote)
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- **2023-03-11** Communicated to House
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- **2023-03-11** House received Senate message
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- **2023-03-11** House receded and passed (Roll No. 776)
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- **2023-03-11** Communicated to Senate
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- **2023-03-11** Completed legislative action
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- **2023-03-11** House Message received
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- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/16/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
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- **2023-03-16** To Governor 3/16/2023 `executive-receipt`
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- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/16/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
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- **2023-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 `executive-signature`
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- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
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- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
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- **2023-05-01** Chapter 100, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c904108a-adca-47e9-bd22-fd73694d2517`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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