republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/hb-5540.md

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Bill	Relating to fentanyl prevention and awareness Education (Laken’s Law)	Relating to fentanyl prevention and awareness Education (Laken’s Law)	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	HB 5540	West Virginia HB 5540 (2024)	bill	Education (K12)	enacted	Stephens	5	39	3	2024-02-09	2024-04-22	openstates	ocd-bill/bfdabcf7-4fc9-4c49-9ac4-de9058fb2e5b	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=5540&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	8618ebb0366413bae0a51d3652f97045cfe7953ad053a52d57041f1dd578249e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 5540 (2024) — Relating to fentanyl prevention and awareness Education (Laken’s Law)

Version chain

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

1. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
4. hb5540 hfa stephens 2-19 _1 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
5. hb5540 sfa takubo _1 2-23 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 97–0 (pass) · lower
• PASSAGE — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 32–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Stephens — primary (person)
• Barnhart — cosponsor (person)
• Dittman — cosponsor (person)
• Ellington — cosponsor (person)
• Hite — cosponsor (person)
• Lewis — cosponsor (person)
• Rohrbach — cosponsor (person)
• Sheedy — cosponsor (person)
• Toney — cosponsor (person)
• Willis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-09 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-02-09 To Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-09 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-02-09 To House Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-15 By substitute, do pass
• 2024-02-16 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-16 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-19 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-19 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-19 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2024-02-19 Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-02-20 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-02-20 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-20 Passed House (Roll No. 238) passage
• 2024-02-20 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-02-21 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-02-21 Committee reference dispensed
• 2024-02-22 On 1st reading
• 2024-02-22 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-23 On 2nd reading
• 2024-02-23 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-23 Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-02-24 On 3rd reading
• 2024-02-24 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-24 Passed Senate (Roll No. 249) passage
• 2024-02-24 Senate requests House to concur
• 2024-03-01 House received Senate message
• 2024-03-01 Immediate consideration
• 2024-03-01 House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 420)
• 2024-03-01 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-03-01 Completed legislative action
• 2024-03-04 House Message received
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/21/2024 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-21 To Governor 3/21/2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/21/2024 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/27/2024 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2024-03-27 Approved by Governor 3/27/24 executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2024-04-22 Chapter 118, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bfdabcf7-4fc9-4c49-9ac4-de9058fb2e5b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).