West Virginia Senate Bill 67

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)
Status: Engrossed on March 4 2026 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2026-03-09 - Markup Discussion
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to allow authorization and funding of alternative high-risk population public charter schools; provide eligibility requirements to be an alternative high-risk population public charter school; specify which students are included as "high risk"; require West Virginia Board of Education rule setting forth requirements for alternative high-risk population charter school funding; allow an institution of higher education to apply to an authorizer to establish virtual or on-campus public charter microschools; allow any public charter school to partner with learning pods and microschools to provide instruction to those learning pods and microschools; and make other changes to the public charter school law.

Relating to public charter schools

Sen. Patricia Rucker [R]

Sen. Brian Helton [R]

Sen. Tom Willis [R]

2026-03-04 - Senate - Passed Senate (Roll No. 320) (Y: 32 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2026-03-09	House	Markup Discussion
2026-03-05	House	To House Education
2026-03-05	House	To Education then Finance
2026-03-05	House	Introduced in House
2026-03-05	House	House received Senate message
2026-03-04	Senate	Ordered to House
2026-03-04	Senate	Passed Senate (Roll No. 320)
2026-03-04	Senate	Read 3rd time
2026-03-04	Senate	On 3rd reading
2026-03-03	Senate	Read 2nd time
2026-03-03	Senate	On 2nd reading
2026-03-02	Senate	Read 1st time
2026-03-02	Senate	Immediate consideration
2026-03-02	Senate	Com. sub. for com. sub. reported
2026-02-13	Senate	Referred to Finance
2026-02-13	Senate	Committee substitute reported, but first to Finance
2026-01-14	Senate	To School Choice
2026-01-14	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2026-01-14	Senate	To School Choice
2026-01-14	Senate	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	5G	18	New Code	See Bill Text
18	5G	3	Amended Code	Citation Text
18	5G	8	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=67&year=2026&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb67%20intr.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=67
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb67%20sub1.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=67
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb67%20sub2.htm&yr=2026&sesstype=RS&i=67
Supplement	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Fiscalnotes/FN(2)/fnsubmit_recordview1.cfm?RecordID=957102617
Supplement	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Fiscalnotes/FN(2)/fnsubmit_recordview1.cfm?RecordID=957102637
Supplement	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Fiscalnotes/FN(2)/fnsubmit_recordview1.cfm?RecordID=958120900
Supplement	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Fiscalnotes/FN(2)/fnsubmit_recordview1.cfm?RecordID=957952743
Roll Call	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/2026/RS/votes/senate/03-04-0320.pdf