| WV | HB5011 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove the one-time free transfer for high school student-athletes and to create a new system for transferring high school student-athletes in general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| WV | SB523 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require public schools to notify parents when dispensing contraceptives to minors. The bill provides a definition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB510 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Children's Vision Act, requiring school children to have vision examinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | HB5040 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Fast Track for Agriculture Education Endorsement Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5046 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove the reporting of assessments and portfolio reviews to county boards of home schooled children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4990 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow the WVSSAC to pull the coaching credentials of any coach found guilty of illegally recruiting students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4968 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is further the process of West Virginia becoming an Agreement State with the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission; transferring authority and responsibility over sources of low-level radiation from other state agencies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Energy and Manufacturing Committee |
| WV | HB4959 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require school performance reports for middles school and high schools in this state to be provided to the Legislature, providing information to be included in the report, including college admission test preparation, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4955 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to modify the law relating to the nonpartisan election of county superintendents of schools. The bill provides general provisions for such an election. The bill specifies the arrangement of the ballot to include such offic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4960 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add requirements for a career exploration course to grades seven and eight educational instruction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4988 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make classroom sizes equal so that aides can be best utilized and one on one time with teachers and students can be maximized without losing the use of an aide.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4969 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this is to withhold a high school diploma from a student who causes at least $1,000 in damage due to destruction of property or defacement of school grounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4946 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to add as required material in public schools the teaching of the full Constitution of the United States, The Federalist Papers, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letters from Birmingham Jail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4896 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that a student who transfers schools is ineligible for interscholastic athletic events for a period of 365 days from the date of entry to the new school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Education Committee |
| WV | SB253 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing minimum student enrollment for school aid formula
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4839 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that online instructors who have contracts with the state board or county boards be provided copies of all IEP, 504, and all other accommodation information relevant to students enrolled in their classes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4833 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that any student in the 11th or 12th grade, who has been placed in a "free/elective/assistant" period, be informed of online college course opportunities available for them.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4847 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide public school access for patriotic youth groups.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4846 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to display the official motto of the United States of America in public elementary and secondary schools and in institutions of higher education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4862 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that all plans of the School Access Safety Act; provide for not less than two school resource officers or prevention resources officers for each school system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4810 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to give a tax credit against taxes actually owed, for qualifying expenses of parents or guardians of children in grade levels K through 12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Education Committee |
| WV | SB465 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit schools from starting an instructional day any earlier than 7:45 a.m.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | HB4773 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to permit students in eighth and ninth grade to attend summer school in order to raise their grades and establish academic eligibility to play sports in the fall.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4820 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that students at public schools of the state may not be charged for parking at their schools or for supplies required for their classes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4778 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to grant jurisdiction to supervise youth sport league athletic events to county boards of education and the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission and to establish the West Virginia Youth Sports Safety Commis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4774 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the section of code allowing for the academic eligibility of transfer students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4821 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require certain standards for virtual students in West Virginia public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4808 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the number of days a retired teacher may accept employment may extend beyond 140 days under specific conditions; and to prohibit reduction of benefits or requiring additional contributions for retirement be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | SB144 | Engross
Sine Die | Requiring each county board to ensure that its meetings are open to public through in-person attendance and broadcast live on its website
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB143 | Engross
Sine Die | Creating WV Guardian Program
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4701 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the "Stay in State" tax credit that allows residents of this state who remain in state after graduating with an undergraduate or associate degree from a state institution to be granted a tax credit for the tot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4749 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for fair pay and maximized employment of disabled persons; create a state "Employment First" policy that encourages agencies to facilitate employment of disabled persons; establish a task force to initiate these...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB324 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to change the name of the School Building Authority to the School Maintenance Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | HB4663 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the State Board of Education to implement trauma-informed practices in grades K-12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House Education Committee |
| WV | SB409 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require all public schools to instruct students on foreign languages. The legislature finds as a public policy that learning a foreign language can improve math and reading outcomes, help a student focus better, and pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB376 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create obligations on law enforcement and CPS to notify certain school personnel of investigations regarding school employees involving certain conduct towards students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB367 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill to create the Anti-Racism Act of 2024. The bill prohibits a school district, a public charter school, the West Virginia Board of Education, the West Virginia Department of Education, or any employee of the aforementioned enti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4649 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove language requiring specific appropriations in order for the State Board of Education, State Department of Education, and the State Superintendent of Schools to provide education to children and adults housed in c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4670 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill relates to the Foundation allowance for transportation cost.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House Education Committee |
| WV | SB345 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a homeless education coordinator in counties designated by the state board as an urban county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB327 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish parameters for providing funding for the Hope Scholarship Program; and providing definitions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB423 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for voluntary private school immunization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB408 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow retired teachers to serve as substitute teachers without sacrificing their retirement benefits and allowing the retired teachers employed as substitute teachers to contribute to their retirement funds but that no ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| WV | SB404 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require education and safety protocols for students in grades 6 through twelve in this state and to protect the safety and security of students when using e-mail, chat rooms, web applications, and other forms of electro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB381 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission to promulgate legislative rules.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB273 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibiting certain divisive acts or concepts from schools, state agencies and any groups receiving state funding
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4608 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require drug testing of all classes of employees in K through 12 schools. It also provides for yearly random drug testing of 10 percent of all employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4604 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the Virtual Public Schools Act. The bill provides a short title, legislative findings and declaration of intent, and definitions. The bill also provides accountability requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Education Committee |
| WV | SB243 | Intro
Sine Die | Requiring moment of silence at beginning of each school day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB290 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishing three-year nontraditional school week pilot project
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education Committee |
