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type: "Bill"
title: "Displaying official US motto in public schools"
description: "Displaying official US motto in public schools"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 280"
citation: "West Virginia SB 280 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Azinger"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 47
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-12"
last_action: "2025-08-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92907b05-ec1c-46a8-90ce-5ec5957487a2"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=280&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "65a481628cbee61f489bb256f375ef1fde323e6933f8d3bfc9f5399c9112afb2"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
---
# West Virginia SB 280 (2025) — Displaying official US motto in public schools
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Engrossed Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb280%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=280)
2. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb280%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=280)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb280%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=280)
4. **sb280 h jud am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/sb280%20h%20jud%20am%20_1%20adopted.htm)
5. **sb280 hfat akers 4-11 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb280%20hfat%20akers%204-11%20adopted.htm)
6. **sb280 sfa azinger _1 3-11 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb280%20sfa%20azinger%20_1%203-11%20adopted.htm)
7. **sb280 sfat azinger _1 3-11 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/sb280%20sfat%20azinger%20_1%203-11%20adopted.htm)
## Votes
- PASSAGE — **972** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **331** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Azinger — primary (person)
- Bartlett — cosponsor (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Hart — cosponsor (person)
- Martin — cosponsor (person)
- Rose — cosponsor (person)
- Taylor — cosponsor (person)
- Thorne — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-12** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-12** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-12** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-07** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-10** On 1st reading
- **2025-03-10** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-11** On 2nd reading
- **2025-03-11** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-11** Floor amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-03-12** On 3rd reading
- **2025-03-12** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-12** Passed Senate (Roll No. 96) `passage`
- **2025-03-12** Title amendment adopted
- **2025-03-12** Ordered to House
- **2025-03-13** House received Senate message
- **2025-03-13** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-03-13** To Education then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-13** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-27** With amendment, do pass, but first to Judiciary `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-27** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Markup Discussion
- **2025-04-09** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-09** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2025-04-10** Amendment rejected (Voice vote) `amendment-failure`
- **2025-04-10** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Passed House (Roll No. 503) `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. 550)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to House
- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-22** To Governor 4/22/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/22/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-29** Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-08-08** Chapter 84, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/92907b05-ec1c-46a8-90ce-5ec5957487a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).