republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/hb-3279.md

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Bill	Relating to requirements for WVU and WVSU Board of Governors	Relating to requirements for WVU and WVSU Board of Governors	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	HB 3279	West Virginia HB 3279 (2025)	bill	Education (Higher)	enacted	Criss	5	50	4	2025-03-10	2025-07-31	openstates	ocd-bill/8ed9ac12-67d6-4a20-93a4-7f62a8c1c6cf	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=3279&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	f09e5743dad3238e57ced608b0de3baf6fd5204afee263e3720484540eb45ea3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia HB 3279 (2025) — Relating to requirements for WVU and WVSU Board of Governors

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. hb3279 s gov am _1 4-4 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — 68–29 (pass) · lower
• EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — 77–20 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 19–15 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 62–35 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Criss — primary (person)
• Riley — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-10 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-03-10 To Education referral-committee
• 2025-03-10 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-03-10 To House Education referral-committee
• 2025-03-10 To House Higher Education referral-committee
• 2025-03-11 Markup Discussion
• 2025-03-13 To House Education referral-committee
• 2025-03-25 Markup Discussion
• 2025-03-26 By substitute, do pass
• 2025-03-27 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-27 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-28 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-28 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-28 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-03-28 Amendment withdrawn (Voice vote)
• 2025-03-31 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-03-31 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-31 Passed House (Roll No. 287) passage
• 2025-03-31 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-04-01 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-04-01 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2025-04-01 To Government Organization referral-committee
• 2025-04-07 Reported do pass, with amendments committee-passage
• 2025-04-07 Immediate consideration
• 2025-04-07 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-04-08 On 2nd reading
• 2025-04-08 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-08 Committee amendments adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-04-08 Oliverio #2 floor amendments rejected (Roll No. 379)
• 2025-04-08 Oliverio #1 floor amendment rejected (Roll No. 380)
• 2025-04-08 Oliverio #3 floor amendments rejected (Voice vote)
• 2025-04-09 On 3rd reading
• 2025-04-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-09 Passed Senate (Roll No. 407) passage
• 2025-04-09 Effective from passage (Roll No. 408)
• 2025-04-09 Senate requests House to concur
• 2025-04-12 House received Senate message
• 2025-04-12 House concurred in Senate effective date (Roll No. 599)
• 2025-04-12 House concurred in Senate title amendment
• 2025-04-12 Effective from passage (Roll No. 600)
• 2025-04-12 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-04-12 Completed legislative action
• 2025-04-12 House Message received
• 2025-04-22 To Governor 4/22/2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/22/2025 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/22/2025 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2025-04-30 Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 executive-signature
• 2025-04-12 Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 - House Journal executive-signature
• 2025-07-31 Chapter 141, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8ed9ac12-67d6-4a20-93a4-7f62a8c1c6cf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).