republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/sb-159.md

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Bill	Prohibiting persons convicted of certain crimes against minors from holding positions on boards of education	Prohibiting persons convicted of certain crimes against minors from holding positions on boards of education	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	SB 159	West Virginia SB 159 (2024)	bill	Education (K12)	enacted	Weld	3	40	3	2024-01-10	2024-04-23	openstates	ocd-bill/3cf6f4ce-1ca8-4e27-8a87-87a19c48f31d	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=159&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	1735593901355df02d1f4a26225e3130df2a54625d6703373dabbe66dd4da1d6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 159 (2024) — Prohibiting persons convicted of certain crimes against minors from holding positions on boards of education

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. sb159 hfa fast 3-7 _1 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 98–0 (pass) · lower
• HFA HANSEN 3-7 #1 — 13–79 (fail) · lower
• Passage — 32–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Weld — primary (person)
• Boley — cosponsor (person)
• Chapman — cosponsor (person)
• Deeds — cosponsor (person)
• Grady — cosponsor (person)
• Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
• Jeffries — cosponsor (person)
• Oliverio — cosponsor (person)
• Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• Roberts — cosponsor (person)
• Rucker — cosponsor (person)
• Stuart — cosponsor (person)
• Swope — cosponsor (person)
• Tarr — cosponsor (person)
• Trump — cosponsor (person)
• Woodrum — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-10 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-10 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-01-10 Committee reference dispensed
• 2024-01-10 Immediate consideration
• 2024-01-10 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-01-11 On 2nd reading
• 2024-01-11 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-01-12 On 3rd reading
• 2024-01-12 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-01-12 Passed Senate (Roll No. 18) passage
• 2024-01-12 Ordered to House
• 2024-01-15 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-15 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-01-15 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-03-06 Do pass
• 2024-03-07 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-03-06 Immediate consideration
• 2024-03-06 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-03-07 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-03-07 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-07 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2024-03-07 Amendment rejected (Voice vote) amendment-failure
• 2024-03-07 Amendment rejected (Roll No. 602) amendment-failure
• 2024-03-08 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-03-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-08 Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-03-08 Passed House (Roll No. 651) passage
• 2024-03-08 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-03-09 House Message received
• 2024-03-09 Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 481)
• 2024-03-09 Communicated to House
• 2024-03-09 Completed legislative action
• 2024-03-09 House received Senate message
• 2024-03-19 To Governor 3/19/2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/19/2024 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/19/24 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-27 Approved by Governor 3/27/24 executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2024-04-23 Chapter 119, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3cf6f4ce-1ca8-4e27-8a87-87a19c48f31d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).