republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/hb-2516.md

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Bill	To repeal antiquated and inoperative portions of code.	To repeal antiquated and inoperative portions of code.	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	HB 2516	West Virginia HB 2516 (2025)	bill	Education (K12)	enacted	Ellington	3	34	2	2025-02-17	2025-07-31	openstates	ocd-bill/dec0da03-5bdb-40b0-af61-836ba4356d0b	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2516&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	d43ec986e81aef2e576c2c2e54950ac95dd1655a829fe8b0e0012a01d73d6cd1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 2516 (2025) — To repeal antiquated and inoperative portions of code.

Version chain

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

1. Engrossed Version (committee substitute) — source
2. Enrolled Version (committee substitute) — source
3. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 92–0 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 34–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ellington — primary (person)
• Campbell — cosponsor (person)
• Crouse — cosponsor (person)
• Dittman — cosponsor (person)
• Hornby — cosponsor (person)
• Statler — cosponsor (person)
• Toney — cosponsor (person)
• Willis — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-17 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-02-17 To Education referral-committee
• 2025-02-17 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-02-17 To House Education referral-committee
• 2025-02-21 To House Public Education referral-committee
• 2025-03-04 To House Education referral-committee
• 2025-03-11 Do pass
• 2025-03-12 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-12 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-13 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-13 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-14 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-14 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-14 Passed House (Roll No. 89) passage
• 2025-03-14 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-03-18 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-03-18 To Education referral-committee
• 2025-03-18 To Education referral-committee
• 2025-03-27 Reported do pass committee-passage
• 2025-03-28 On 1st reading
• 2025-03-28 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-29 On 2nd reading
• 2025-03-29 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-31 On 3rd reading
• 2025-03-31 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-31 Passed Senate (Roll No. 256) passage
• 2025-03-31 Communicated to House
• 2025-03-31 Completed legislative action
• 2025-04-01 House received Senate message
• 2025-04-02 To Governor 4/2/2025 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-08 Approved by Governor 4/8/2025 executive-signature
• 2025-04-08 Approved by Governor 4/8/2025 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2025-04-08 Approved by Governor 4/8/2025 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2025-07-31 Chapter 59, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dec0da03-5bdb-40b0-af61-836ba4356d0b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).