republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/sb-280.md

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Bill	Allowing teachers in public schools to discuss scientific theories	Allowing teachers in public schools to discuss scientific theories	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	SB 280	West Virginia SB 280 (2024)	bill	Education (K12)	enacted	Grady	6	46	4	2024-01-11	2024-04-23	openstates	ocd-bill/c1cebb63-e0e6-4565-9a89-50c3e1b23e30	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=280&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	5d6df2805929ae2d966c1949665dafa5b77917e53d8b43a8987ab940de6fd812	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 280 (2024) — Allowing teachers in public schools to discuss scientific theories

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. Move the previous question adopted (Roll No. 742) (committee substitute) — source
5. sb280 h jud am _1 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
6. sb280 hfat fast 3-7 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 89–9 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 31–2 (pass) · upper
• PREVIOUS QUESTION — 77–20 (pass) · lower
• HFA YOUNG 3-7 #2 — 18–78 (fail) · lower

Sponsors

• Grady — primary (person)
• Azinger — cosponsor (person)
• Deeds — cosponsor (person)
• Phillips — cosponsor (person)
• Roberts — cosponsor (person)
• Stuart — cosponsor (person)
• Tarr — cosponsor (person)
• Taylor — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-11 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-11 To Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-11 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-01-11 To Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-17 Committee substitute reported
• 2024-01-18 On 1st reading
• 2024-01-18 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-01-19 On 2nd reading
• 2024-01-22 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-01-23 On 3rd reading
• 2024-01-23 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-01-23 Passed Senate (Roll No. 49) passage
• 2024-01-23 Ordered to House
• 2024-01-29 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-29 To Education then Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-01-29 To House Education referral-committee
• 2024-02-19 With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary committee-passage
• 2024-02-19 To House Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-03-05 With amendment, do pass committee-passage
• 2024-03-06 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 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. 605) amendment-failure
• 2024-03-07 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-03-07 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-03-08 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-03-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-09 Move the previous question adopted (Roll No. 742)
• 2024-03-09 Passed House (Roll No. 743) passage
• 2024-03-09 Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-03-09 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-03-09 House Message received
• 2024-03-09 Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 526)
• 2024-03-09 Communicated to House
• 2024-03-09 Completed legislative action
• 2024-03-09 House received Senate message
• 2024-03-14 To Governor 3/14/2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/14/2024 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/14/2024 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-22 Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2024-03-09 Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2024-04-23 Chapter 103, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c1cebb63-e0e6-4565-9a89-50c3e1b23e30. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).