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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relating to creating a State Advisory Council on Establishing a Military College"
description: "Relating to creating a State Advisory Council on Establishing a Military College"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 2718"
citation: "West Virginia HB 2718 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education (Higher)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McGeehan"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 39
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-20"
last_action: "2025-07-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/33bd7d49-a789-48b9-bcde-4e103d8ac281"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2718&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "8a0568ba6507596944dbc894d99ac0022730746879906ef985203ca4a00ef209"
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 2718 (2025) — Relating to creating a State Advisory Council on Establishing a Military College
## 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=hb2718%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2718)
2. **Engrossed Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2718%20sub1%20eng.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2718)
3. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2718%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2718)
4. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2718%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2718)
5. **hb2718 sfa oliverio _1 4-10 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2718%20sfa%20oliverio%20_1%204-10%20adopted.htm)
6. **hb2718 sfa weld _1 4-11 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2025/RS/floor_amends/hb2718%20sfa%20weld%20_1%204-11%20adopted.htm)
## Votes
- PASSAGE-SENATE AMENDED HB — **942** (pass) · lower
- PASSAGE — **952** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **340** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- McGeehan — primary (person)
- Cannon, J. — cosponsor (person)
- Funkhouser — cosponsor (person)
- Hanshaw — cosponsor (person)
- Hornby — cosponsor (person)
- Horst — cosponsor (person)
- Leavitt — cosponsor (person)
- Masters — cosponsor (person)
- Worrell — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-20** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2025-02-20** To Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-20** To House Government Organization `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14** By substitute, do pass
- **2025-03-17** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-17** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-03-18** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-18** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-03-19** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2025-03-19** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-03-19** Passed House (Roll No. 112) `passage`
- **2025-03-19** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-03-20** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-03-20** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Reported do pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-09** Immediate consideration
- **2025-04-09** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2025-04-10** On 2nd reading
- **2025-04-10** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2025-04-11** On 3rd reading with right to amend
- **2025-04-11** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2025-04-11** Oliverio amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-11** Weld amendments adopted (Voice vote)
- **2025-04-11** Passed Senate (Roll No. 479) `passage`
- **2025-04-11** Senate requests House to concur
- **2025-04-12** House received Senate message
- **2025-04-12** House concurred in Senate amendment and passed bill (Roll No. 578)
- **2025-04-12** Communicated to Senate
- **2025-04-12** Completed legislative action
- **2025-04-12** 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`
- **2025-04-25** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-04-12** Approved by Governor 4/25/2025 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-31** Chapter 178, 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/33bd7d49-a789-48b9-bcde-4e103d8ac281`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).