West Virginia House Bill 2107 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: Introduced on January 20 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-01-20 - To House Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to require the accumulation of one and one-half years of instruction in the study of the Declaration of Independence and other founding American historical documents, including the Bill of Rights, before high school graduation. The bill also requires that students study the historical, political and social environments at the time these documents were generated and it prohibits study of social problems, economics, foreign affairs, the United Nations, world government, socialism or communism until basic courses in American state and local geography and history are completed.

Relating to required courses of school instruction generally

Del. John Overington [R]	Del. Geoff Foster [R]	Del. Eric Householder [R]	Del. Michel Moffatt [R]
Del. Jim Butler [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-01-20	House	To House Education
2015-01-20	House	Introduced in House
2015-01-20	House	To Education then Judiciary
2015-01-20	House	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	2	9	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2107&year=2015&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2107%20intr.htm&yr=2015&sesstype=RS&i=2107