republic-os/legislation/us/states/wv/2025/sb-565.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Relating generally to practice of optometry	Relating generally to practice of optometry	us/states/wv	West Virginia Legislature	2025	SB 565	West Virginia SB 565 (2025)	bill	Professions and Occupations	enacted	Taylor	8	45	2	2025-02-21	2025-08-08	openstates	ocd-bill/bbb0b17a-683f-4c88-8011-a1a1a46716b6	https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=565&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill	04e5e38bcd55cf03030398268f8b207476f9a687c21c17e88bb5cac8c7f8abf0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-wv

West Virginia SB 565 (2025) — Relating generally to practice of optometry

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. Takubo #2 floor amendments adopted (Roll No. 77) (committee substitute) — source
6. sb565 h hhr am _1 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
7. sb565 hfat worrell 4-9 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source
8. sb565 sfa takubo _2 3-7 adopted.htm (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASSAGE — 93–4 (pass) · lower
• Passage — 22–11 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Taylor — primary (person)
• Clements — cosponsor (person)
• Deeds — cosponsor (person)
• Garcia — cosponsor (person)
• Hamilton — cosponsor (person)
• Morris — cosponsor (person)
• Roberts — cosponsor (person)
• Rose — cosponsor (person)
• Rucker — cosponsor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-21 Filed for introduction filing
• 2025-02-21 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2025-02-21 Introduced in Senate introduction
• 2025-02-21 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2025-03-05 Committee substitute reported
• 2025-03-06 On 1st reading
• 2025-03-06 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-03-07 On 2nd reading
• 2025-03-07 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-03-07 Takubo #1 floor amendment rejected (Roll No. 76)
• 2025-03-07 Takubo #2 floor amendments adopted (Roll No. 77)
• 2025-03-07 Floor amendment reported
• 2025-03-07 Takubo #3 floor amendment withdrawn by unanimous consent
• 2025-03-10 On 3rd reading
• 2025-03-10 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-03-10 Passed Senate (Roll No. 86) passage
• 2025-03-10 Ordered to House
• 2025-03-11 House received Senate message
• 2025-03-11 Introduced in House introduction
• 2025-03-11 To Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2025-03-11 To House Health and Human Resources referral-committee
• 2025-03-31 Markup Discussion
• 2025-04-04 With amendment, do pass committee-passage
• 2025-04-07 On 1st reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-07 Read 1st time reading-1
• 2025-04-08 On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-08 Read 2nd time reading-2
• 2025-04-08 Amendment reported by the Clerk
• 2025-04-08 Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-04-09 On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
• 2025-04-09 Read 3rd time reading-3
• 2025-04-09 Passed House (Roll No. 432) passage
• 2025-04-09 Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
• 2025-04-09 Communicated to Senate
• 2025-04-10 House Message received
• 2025-04-10 Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 459)
• 2025-04-10 Communicated to House
• 2025-04-10 Completed legislative action
• 2025-04-14 To Governor 4/14/2025 executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/14/2025 - Senate Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-04-12 To Governor 4/14/2025 - House Journal executive-receipt
• 2025-05-01 Became law 5/1/2025
• 2025-04-12 Became law without Governor's signature - Senate Journal
• 2025-04-12 Became law without Governor's signature- House Journal
• 2025-08-08 Chapter 198, Acts, Regular Session, 2025 became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bbb0b17a-683f-4c88-8011-a1a1a46716b6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).