West Virginia Senate Bill 870

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)
Status: Introduced on February 19 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-26 - Referred to Judiciary on 2nd reading
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

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.

Restoring Sanity Act

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]

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

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
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

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=870&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb870%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=870
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb870%20sub1.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=870