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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Declaring a shortage of qualified bus operators and allowing retired bus operators to accept employment"
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description: "Declaring a shortage of qualified bus operators and allowing retired bus operators to accept employment"
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jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
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legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
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session: "2023"
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identifier: "HB 2346"
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citation: "West Virginia HB 2346 (2023)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Education (K12)"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Toney"]
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version_count: 3
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action_count: 44
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vote_count: 1
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first_action: "2023-01-11"
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last_action: "2023-05-01"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e4ce51a6-c4f6-47e8-ad8d-d9a055100dc0"
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source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2346&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
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source_hash: "151d276da07456e11dd6010f0d3dc2f4cea0f9c2ff9f4d75f55a07c0da0672b8"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
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---
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# West Virginia HB 2346 (2023) — Declaring a shortage of qualified bus operators and allowing retired bus operators to accept employment
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2346%20sub.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2346)
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2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2346%20sub%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2346)
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3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2346%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=2346)
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## Votes
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- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Toney — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2023-01-11** Filed for introduction `filing`
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- **2023-01-11** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2023-01-11** Introduced in House `introduction`
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- **2023-01-11** To House Education `referral-committee`
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- **2023-01-24** With amendment, do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
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- **2023-01-24** To House Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2023-02-07** By substitute, do pass
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- **2023-02-07** Immediate consideration
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- **2023-02-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
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- **2023-02-08** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
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- **2023-02-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2023-02-09** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
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- **2023-02-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2023-02-09** Passed House (Roll No. 91) `passage`
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- **2023-02-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 109)
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- **2023-02-09** Communicated to Senate
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- **2023-02-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
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- **2023-02-10** To Education then Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2023-02-10** To Education `referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-02** Reported do pass, but first to Finance `committee-passage`
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- **2023-03-02** To Finance `referral-committee`
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- **2023-03-07** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
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- **2023-03-07** Immediate consideration
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- **2023-03-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
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- **2023-03-08** On 2nd reading
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- **2023-03-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
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- **2023-03-09** On 3rd reading
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- **2023-03-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
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- **2023-03-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 452) `passage`
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- **2023-03-09** Effective July 1, 2023 (Roll No. 452)
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- **2023-03-09** Senate requests House to concur in changed effective date
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- **2023-03-11** House received Senate message
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- **2023-03-11** House concurred in Senate effective date (Voice)
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- **2023-03-11** Effective July 1, 2023 (Roll No. 719)
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- **2023-03-11** Communicated to Senate
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- **2023-03-09** Completed legislative action
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- **2023-03-11** House Message received
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- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/20/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
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- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/20/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
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- **2023-03-20** To Governor 3/20/2023 `executive-receipt`
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- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
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- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
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- **2023-03-29** Approved by Governor 3/29/2023 `executive-signature`
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- **2023-05-01** Chapter 298, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e4ce51a6-c4f6-47e8-ad8d-d9a055100dc0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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