West Virginia House Bill 4482 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)
Status: Introduced on February 10 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-10 - To House Education
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purposes of this bill are as follows: (1) Restricting that excused absences for personal illness, when involving “family members” of a student, as currently prescribed in current code, are restricted to parents’ or guardians’ illnesses; (2) providing the parent or guardian must provide a statement from a medical, osteopathic or chiropractic physician or physician’s assistant confirming the existence of the illness or injury when a student misses school due to a parent or guardian’s illness or injury; (3) providing an application for home schooling may be denied by the county superintendent of schools if the student for whom the request is made has three or more unexcused absences during the school year at the time the application is made; and (4) providing parents denied an application for home schooling may reapply during the next grading period following the denial. .

Relating to excused absences for personal illness from school

Del. Steve Westfall [R]	Del. Danny Wagner [R]	Del. Roy Cooper [R]	Del. George Ambler [R]
Del. David Evans [R]	Del. David Perry [D]	Del. Ricky Moye [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-10	House	To House Education
2016-02-10	House	Introduced in House
2016-02-10	House	To Education
2016-02-10	House	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	8	4	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4482&year=2016&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4482%20intr.htm&yr=2016&sesstype=RS&i=4482