republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/sb-154.md

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Bill	Prohibiting sexual orientation instruction in public schools	Prohibiting sexual orientation instruction in public schools	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	SB 154	West Virginia SB 154 (2025)	bill	Education (K12)	enacted	Grady	6	46	4	2025-02-12	2025-08-08	openstates	ocd-bill/a25d59c1-64d3-4095-8b96-945e965b412e	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=154&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	441af32f2caba117ea0a69ab22a27e443f503dd3a3f65f7eccef73be36dd4dab	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 154 (2025) — Prohibiting sexual orientation instruction in public schools

Version chain

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

1. Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
2. Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. Enrolled Version (committee substitute) — source
4. Introduced Version (committee substitute) — source
5. sb154 h edu am _1 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
6. sb154 hfat ellington adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage — 33–1 (pass) · upper
• PASSAGE — 82–17 (pass) · lower
• HFA YOUNG 4-10 #1 — 11–88 (fail) · lower
• DISPENSE 2ND REFERENCE TO JUDICIARY — 74–13 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Grady — primary (person)
• Deeds — cosponsor (person)
• Hart — cosponsor (person)
• Helton — cosponsor (person)
• Roberts — cosponsor (person)
• Rucker — cosponsor (person)
• Tarr — cosponsor (person)
• Thorne — cosponsor (person)
• Willis — cosponsor (person)
• Woodrum — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-12 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-02-12 To Education then Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-12 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-02-12 To Education referral-committee
• 2025-02-21 Committee substitute reported, but first to Judiciary
• 2025-02-21 To Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-28 Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
• 2025-03-03 On 1st reading
• 2025-03-03 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-04 On 2nd reading
• 2025-03-04 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-04 Floor amendment rejected (Voice vote)
• 2025-03-05 On 3rd reading
• 2025-03-05 Laid over on 3rd reading 3/5/2025
• 2025-03-06 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-06 Passed Senate (Roll No. 66) passage
• 2025-03-06 Ordered to House
• 2025-03-10 House received Senate message
• 2025-03-10 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-03-10 To Education then Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-03-10 To House Education referral-committee
• 2025-04-02 Markup Discussion
• 2025-04-08 With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary committee-passage
• 2025-04-08 2nd reference dispensed (Roll No. 420)
• 2025-04-09 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-09 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-04-10 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-11 On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-11 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-11 Placed at foot of 3rd Reading
• 2025-04-11 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-04-11 Amendment rejected (Roll No. 550) amendment-failure
• 2025-04-11 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-04-11 Passed House (Roll No. 551) passage
• 2025-04-11 Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-04-11 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-04-12 House Message received
• 2025-04-12 Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 598)
• 2025-04-12 Communicated to House
• 2025-04-12 Completed legislative action
• 2025-04-21 To Governor 4/21/2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/21/2025 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/21/2025 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-30 Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 executive-signature
• 2025-04-12 Approved by Governor 4/30/2025 - Senate Journal executive-signature
• 2025-08-08 Chapter 83, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a25d59c1-64d3-4095-8b96-945e965b412e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).