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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Prohibiting Cell phones in class"
description: "Prohibiting Cell phones in class"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2003"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2003 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governor -- Bills Requested By"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hanshaw"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 43
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-18"
last_action: "2025-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d257bf39-3fa4-481f-b89e-7251e555c2c7"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2003&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "6869635140ff0f58a0d0cc5676e6a6db4ec20c53957e7959e8e6c54a625b8fbc"
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 HB 2003 (2025) — Prohibiting Cell phones in class
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2003%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2003)
2. **Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2003%20sub2.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2003)
3. **Engrossed Committee Substitute for the Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2003%20sub2%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2003)
4. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2003%20sub2%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2003)
5. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2003%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2003)
6. **hb2003 s edu am _1 4-7 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/com_amends/hb2003%20s%20edu%20am%20_1%204-7%20adopted.htm)
## Votes
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **950** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **331** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **923** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Hanshaw — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-18** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-18** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-18** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-18** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26** To House Public Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-11** To House Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11** Markup Discussion
- **2025-03-18** By substitute, do pass
- **2025-03-19** By substitute for substitute, do pass
- **2025-03-20** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-19** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-20** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-20** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-21** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-21** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-21** Passed House (Roll No. 131) `passage`
- **2025-03-21** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-24** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-24** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** To Education `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-07** Reported do pass, with amendment `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-07** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-07** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-08** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-08** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-08** Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-09** On 3rd reading
- **2025-04-09** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-09** Passed Senate (Roll No. 386) `passage`
- **2025-04-09** Senate requests House to concur
- **2025-04-10** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-10** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 482)
- **2025-04-10** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-10** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-11** House Message received
- **2025-04-15** To Governor 4/15/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/15/2025 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** To Governor 4/15/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-29** Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/29/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-30** Chapter 93, 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/d257bf39-3fa4-481f-b89e-7251e555c2c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).