republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2024/sb-503.md

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Bill	Protecting belief-based student organizations from certain types of discrimination	Protecting belief-based student organizations from certain types of discrimination	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2024	SB 503	West Virginia SB 503 (2024)	bill	Education (K12)	enacted	Grady	6	41	4	2024-01-19	2024-04-23	openstates	ocd-bill/e911bc2f-5db0-42f1-bc08-10d33cca08b9	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=503&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	571241b068dce49470675bde57dc66619a183d51fac70008ac5f06cf086cb08f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 503 (2024) — Protecting belief-based student organizations from certain types of discrimination

Version chain

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

1. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
2. Engrossed Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
5. sb503 sfa grady _1 2-26 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
6. sb503 sfat grady _1 2-27 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• HFA HORNBUCKLE 3-7 — 14–80 (fail) · lower
• HFA HAMILTON 3-7 — 14–78 (fail) · lower
• PASSAGE — 88–10 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 31–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Grady — primary (person)
• Azinger — cosponsor (person)
• Deeds — cosponsor (person)
• Maynard — cosponsor (person)
• Roberts — cosponsor (person)
• Rucker — cosponsor (person)
• Taylor — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-19 Filed for introduction filing
• 2024-01-19 To Education then Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-01-22 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-01-22 To Education referral-committee
• 2024-01-26 Reported do pass, but first to Judiciary committee-passage
• 2024-01-26 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2024-02-24 Committee substitute reported
• 2024-02-24 Immediate consideration
• 2024-02-24 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2024-02-26 On 2nd reading
• 2024-02-26 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2024-02-27 On 3rd reading with right to amend
• 2024-02-27 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-02-27 Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2024-02-27 Passed Senate (Roll No. 282) passage
• 2024-02-27 Title amendment adopted
• 2024-02-27 Ordered to House
• 2024-02-29 Introduced in House introduction
• 2024-02-29 To House Education referral-committee
• 2024-03-05 Do pass
• 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 (Roll No. 607) amendment-failure
• 2024-03-07 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2024-03-07 Amendment rejected (Roll No. 608) amendment-failure
• 2024-03-08 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2024-03-08 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2024-03-08 Passed House (Roll No. 663) passage
• 2024-03-08 Communicated to Senate
• 2024-03-08 Completed legislative action
• 2024-03-09 House Message received
• 2024-03-13 To Governor 3/13/2024 executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/13/2024 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2024-03-09 To Governor 3/13/2024 - 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 154, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e911bc2f-5db0-42f1-bc08-10d33cca08b9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).