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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Making it felony offense for school employee or volunteer to engage in sexual contact with students"
description: "Making it felony offense for school employee or volunteer to engage in sexual contact with students"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 187"
citation: "West Virginia SB 187 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Crime"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Clements"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 45
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2023-01-13"
last_action: "2023-05-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c904108a-adca-47e9-bd22-fd73694d2517"
source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=187&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "940f1d3852429d19cee901377bd276c8798bf96b01c9015742ba523a2ce53db7"
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 187 (2023) — Making it felony offense for school employee or volunteer to engage in sexual contact with students
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb187%20sub1.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=187)
2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb187%20sub2.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=187)
3. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb187%20sub2%20enr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=187)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb187%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=187)
5. **sb187 h jud am _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/com_amends/sb187 h jud am _1 adopted.htm)
6. **sb187 hfat capito 3-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2023/RS/floor_amends/sb187 hfat capito 3-10 adopted.htm)
## Votes
- Passage — **330** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Clements — primary (person)
- Deeds — cosponsor (person)
- Grady — cosponsor (person)
- Hunt — cosponsor (person)
- Plymale — cosponsor (person)
- Roberts — cosponsor (person)
- Rucker — cosponsor (person)
- Stuart — cosponsor (person)
- Woelfel — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-13** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2023-01-13** To Education then Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-13** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-01-13** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-17** Committee substitute reported, but first to Judiciary
- **2023-01-17** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-08** Committee substitute for committee substitute reported
- **2023-02-09** On 1st reading
- **2023-02-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-02-10** On 2nd reading
- **2023-02-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-02-13** On 3rd reading
- **2023-02-13** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-02-13** Passed Senate (Roll No. 170) `passage`
- **2023-02-13** Ordered to House
- **2023-02-14** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2023-02-14** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-14** To House Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-08** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-08** Immediate consideration
- **2023-03-08** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2023-03-09** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-09** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2023-03-10** On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar
- **2023-03-10** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2023-03-10** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-10** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2023-03-10** Passed House (Roll No. 639) `passage`
- **2023-03-10** Title amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2023-03-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-11** House Message received
- **2023-03-11** Senate refused to concur; requested House recede(Voice vote)
- **2023-03-11** Communicated to House
- **2023-03-11** House received Senate message
- **2023-03-11** House receded and passed (Roll No. 776)
- **2023-03-11** Communicated to Senate
- **2023-03-11** Completed legislative action
- **2023-03-11** House Message received
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/16/2023 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-16** To Governor 3/16/2023 `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-11** To Governor 3/16/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2023-03-28** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-03-11** Approved by Governor 3/28/2023 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2023-05-01** Chapter 100, Acts, Regular Session, 2023 `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c904108a-adca-47e9-bd22-fd73694d2517`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).