WV SB870 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)
Status: Introduced on February 19 2024 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2024-02-26 - Referred to Judiciary on 2nd reading
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Status: Introduced on February 19 2024 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2024-02-26 - Referred to Judiciary on 2nd reading
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]
Summary
The purpose of this bill is to establish the Anti-Woke Act; prohibit 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 entities from providing instruction in, requiring instruction in, making part of a course, or requiring a statement or affirmation by any employee certain concepts; prohibit a state institution of higher education and an employee of a state institution of higher education from requiring a student or employee to take instruction in, or include in the curriculum of any required course, or require a statement or affirmation by any student or employee that certain concepts are factual and accurate or must be held as a belief of the student or employee; provide that county board and public charter school employees are not required to use student's preferred pronoun when referring to the student if the preferred pronoun is not consistent with the student's biological sex; prohibit a state institution of higher education from establishing, sustaining, supporting, or staffing a diversity, equity, and inclusion officer or office; and declare the policy of the state that the administrations of state institutions of higher education, and their administrative units, be officially neutral with regard to certain widely contested opinions.
Titel
Restoring Sanity Act
Sponsors
Sen. Patricia Rucker [R] | Sen. Jay Taylor [R] | Sen. Robert Karnes [R] | Sen. Rollan Roberts [R] |
Sen. Mark Maynard [R] | Sen. Patrick Martin [R] | Sen. Randy Smith [R] | Sen. Mike Stuart [R] |
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
---|---|---|
2024-02-26 | Senate | Referred to Judiciary on 2nd reading |
2024-02-26 | Senate | Read 1st time |
2024-02-26 | Senate | Immediate consideration |
2024-02-26 | Senate | Committee substitute reported, but first to Judiciary |
2024-02-19 | Senate | To Education |
2024-02-19 | Senate | Introduced in Senate |
2024-02-19 | Senate | To Education then Judiciary |
2024-02-19 | Senate | Filed for introduction |
Subjects
Code Citations
Chapter | Article | Section | Citation Type | Statute Text |
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18 | 2 | 9b | New Code | See Bill Text |
18 | 5 | 29 | New Code | See Bill Text |
18B | 14 | 5 | New Code | See Bill Text |
18B | 14 | 6 | New Code | See Bill Text |
18B | 1G | 1 | New Code | See Bill Text |
18B | 1G | 2 | New Code | See Bill Text |
18B | 1G | 3 | New Code | See Bill Text |
18B | 1G | 4 | New Code | See Bill Text |
18B | 1G | 5 | New Code | See Bill Text |