SB 283 West Virginia Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Expanding grade levels of personal finance course requirements needed for graduation

SB 283 requires public high school students to complete a personal finance course as a graduation requirement across expanded grade levels. The bill directly affects all students in public high schools by mandating financial literacy education earlier in their academic journey. Key provisions change the current grade range for this requirement, ensuring students take the course in more grades (e.g., moving from 11th grade to include 9th or 10th grade). This policy change standardizes personal finance education as a core graduation requirement statewide.

Issues: ✓ Education

Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Mar 2025

Senate Passage

Mar 2025

House of Delegates Passage

Mar 2025

Signed into Law

Aug 2025

Introduced Feb 12, 2025 Signed Aug 8, 2025

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MINOR

This bill expands the West Virginia personal finance graduation requirement to include 8th grade, allowing students to complete the course in 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th grade. It also makes this expansion retroactive, meaning students who took the course in 8th, 9th, or 10th grade before the law took effect will still count it toward graduation.

Scope change

The bill's scope expanded from requiring the course only in 9th through 12th grade to include 8th grade, and the applicability was extended retroactively to cover students who completed the course in 8th, 9th, or 10th grade prior to the effective date.

ELIGIBILITY

Expanded eligibility for the personal finance graduation requirement to include students in 8th grade, in addition to 9th through 12th grade.

TIMELINE

Added a retroactive provision allowing students who completed the personal finance course in 8th, 9th, or 10th grade before the effective date to satisfy the graduation requirement.

Floor votes · Senate Feb 24, 2025 · House of Delegates Mar 25, 2025

How they voted

31–0

Passed · 2 other

Total votes 33

Feb 24, 2025

D Democratic2

2 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican31

29 Yea 2

93% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

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Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Amendments

Apr 2, 2025

Signed into law

Approved by Governor 4/1/2025 - House Journal

lower

Apr 2, 2025

Signed into law

Approved by Governor 4/1/2025 - Senate Journal

upper

Apr 1, 2025

Signed into law

Approved by Governor 4/1/2025

upper

Mar 26, 2025

Upper · Passed

Senate concurred in House amendments and passed bill (Roll No. 174)

upper

Mar 25, 2025

Lower · Passed

Passed House (Roll No. 180)

lower

Mar 24, 2025

Lower · Passed

Committee amendment adopted (Voice vote)

lower

Mar 24, 2025

Introduced

Amendment reported by the Clerk

lower

Mar 20, 2025

Lower · Passed

With amendment, do pass

lower

Feb 25, 2025

Committee

To House Education

lower

Feb 25, 2025

Committee

To Education

lower

Feb 25, 2025

Introduced

Introduced in House

lower

Feb 24, 2025

Upper · Passed

Passed Senate (Roll No. 26)

upper

Feb 19, 2025

Upper · Passed

Committee substitute reported

upper

Feb 12, 2025

Introduced

Introduced in Senate

upper

Feb 12, 2025

Committee

To Education

upper

1 primary · 2 co-sponsors