| WV | SB507 | Engross | Establishing Katherine Johnson Academy as magnet school programs at WV colleges and universities
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-28
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| WV | SB573 | Engross | Relating generally to school calendars
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-27
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| WV | HB4549 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to require school counselors in public schools to spend 100 percent of their time on comprehensive school counseling programs. The bill also requires county boards to ensure that school counselors are not assigned administ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
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| WV | HB4577 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to permit classroom teachers or school service personnel who at the time of a school merger who are the sole occupants of the same positions that will exist at the new school will maintain that position at the new school. ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
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| WV | HB4602 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the instructional term for students begins on the Tuesday after Labor Day and ends the Friday before Memorial Day. The bill provides an exception. The bill permits additional instruction minutes per day. Th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
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| WV | HB4528 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to modify the transfer and enrollment policies for students in public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
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| WV | HB4520 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to require county boards of education to provide free feminine hygiene products in grades 6 through 12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
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| WV | HB4564 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the requirement that a student placed in transitional education programs as a high school senior must re-take a college-and career-readiness examination or similar assessment of readiness if the student has al...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
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| WV | HB4614 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to remove language requiring specific appropriations in order for the State Board of Education, State Department of Education and the State Superintendent of Schools to provide education to children and adults in housed in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-13
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| WV | HB4469 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to increase the salaries of public school teachers over a five-year period.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
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| WV | HB4466 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to increase PROMISE scholarships to persons majoring in STEM (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields to pay the full cost of tuition, room and board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-07
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| WV | HCR42 | Intro | Requesting the Joint Committee on Government and Finance study methods to incentivize and advise middle and high school students to participate in career and technical education programs
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
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| WV | HB4430 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to establish a merit-based Katherine Johnson Hope Scholarship program to provide tuition and fee payments for certain qualified students to participate in community and technical college education programs at state communi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-05
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| WV | HB4398 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to statutorily provide the grade point average required for student participation in interscholastic athletics at the high school level.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-02-01
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| WV | SB284 | Engross | Increasing access to career education and workforce training
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
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| WV | HB4371 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit all employees of the State Board of Education or any county board from counseling, referring, transporting, or assisting any student to obtain an abortion. The bill provides that a violation of its provisions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
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| WV | HB4374 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to provide a mechanism for the independent evaluation of revenue estimates by West Virginia and Marshall Universities’ business colleges.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-31
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| WV | HB4362 | Intro | The purpose of this to relating to recognizing outstanding students who are top achievers in scholastic studies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
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| WV | HB4352 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the State Board of Education to provide up to $225,000 per year, out of existing funds, for five years, to assist county boards of education in converting their maintenance vehicles to compressed natural gas o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-30
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| WV | HB4277 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to make individuals who completed home school eligible for the PROMISE scholarship without having to obtain a diploma equivalent such as a general equivalency degree (GED).Â
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-24
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| WV | HB4259 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to provide information to high school students regarding career and technical educational opportunities during and after high school and to codify the Governor’s Workforce Credential.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-23
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| WV | HB4255 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to require the state board of education to develop an elective course on Vocational Agriculture.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-23
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| WV | HB4267 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to increase the quality of the state’s workforce by increasing access to career education through the establishment of Advanced Career Education (ACE) programs and the WV Invests Grant Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-23
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| WV | HB4249 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to allow county boards of education to lease buildings that meet existing standards from private organizations or businesses in cases of emergency or condemnation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
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| WV | HB4243 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to require county boards of education to conduct regular structural inspections of school facilities and structures and establish a schedule of rotating inspections for all schools to be inspected at least once every ten y...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
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| WV | HB4250 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to create a digital learning pilot project. The bill establishes a purpose, goals and objectives. The bill establishes key components of the pilot project, qualifications, and a deadline.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
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| WV | HB4248 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to require county boards of education to permit students who are homeschooled or attend private schools to enroll and take classes at the county’s vocational school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
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| WV | HB4244 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to grant business tax credits to businesses that financially support students enrolled in the state’s community and technical colleges. The bill establishes the amount of credits available. The bill sets forth conditions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-22
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| WV | HB4226 | Intro | This purpose of this bill is to eliminate the competency testing requirement for school service personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-19
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| WV | HB4225 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the written consent requirement for relegating any condition of employment for service personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-19
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| WV | HB4211 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to increase penalties for school employees convicted of embezzling public funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-19
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| WV | HB4231 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the requirement to pay service personnel for at least a full day of work when he or she has worked more than three and one-half hours on any Saturday or Sunday.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-19
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| WV | HB4206 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to revise the pupil to teacher ratio for elementary schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-19
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| WV | HB4203 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to create the Campus Free Speech Act. The bill makes findings. The bill creates the Committee on Free Expression. The bill requires freshman orientation. The bill authorizes the Higher Education Policy Commission and state...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-19
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| WV | HB4216 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to revise the order in which qualified applicants are considered for service personnel employment by county boards of education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-19
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| WV | HB4139 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to specify the conditions where it is unlawful to possess a firearm at school-sponsored functions. The bill identifies the area of those functions. The bill revises the conditions when a retired law-enforcement officer may...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-16
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| WV | HB4008 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to create an Educational Savings Account Program for students with disabilities and to provide for its administration.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-12
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| WV | HB4037 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to create a new scholarship available to all West Virginians upon graduation from high school that remain in West Virginia to pursue an associate or bachelor’s degree of $10,000 per year. The only academic requirement ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-12
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| WV | HB4007 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to allow home-schooled students to participate in secondary school extracurricular activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-12
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| WV | HB2166 | Intro | Requiring county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
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| WV | HB2818 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit state agencies and institutions of higher learning from discriminating against graduates of private, nonpublic or home schools by requiring them to submit to alternative testing as a precondition for acceptance...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
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| WV | HB2742 | Intro | School Consolidation Task Force
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB2335 | Intro | Protecting academic freedom in higher education
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
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| WV | HB2056 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to require the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission to adopt rules to provide for use of neck braces by all football players in interscholastic athletic football events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB2695 | Intro | Creating a pilot program for expansion of school-based mental health and school-based diversion
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
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| WV | HB2210 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to increase pay to teachers and service personnel by two percent the first year, two percent the second and one percent in the third year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
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| WV | HB2849 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the compensation level of the Chancellor for Higher Education may be no greater than the salary of the Governor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
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| WV | HB2756 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to make Promise scholarships available to students who wish to pursue a vocational certificate or degree in a community and technical college education program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
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| WV | HB2213 | Intro | The purpose of this bill is to provide that five unexcused occasions on which a student is tardy for school may equal one unexcused absence.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
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| WV | HB2108 | Intro | Requiring school bus aides, who are trained in preventing bullying and providing a safe environment for students while being transported on a school bus, to be present on school buses
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-01-10
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