| WV | HB5661 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide free feminine hygiene products to students in public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| WV | HB5658 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the School Building Authority to make an assessment of school safety needs for any new or existing projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| WV | HB5673 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to unify of county school districts in the state; establish findings; require county school districts be unified with other county school districts by July 1, 2027; require State Board of Education to study and provide rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| WV | HB5687 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia School Patrol Canine Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| WV | HB5671 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow injured athletes to have two extra semesters of high school eligibility if they are injured and unable to compete.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| WV | HB5653 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the one-time free transfer for high school student-athletes and to grandfather in students who transferred during the 2023-2024 school year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| WV | HB5664 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Mountaineer Scholars Grant Program, which would provide a $100 grant to each child born in West Virginia to establish a qualified higher education savings program account through the West Virginia State Tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| WV | HB5666 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Forming Open and Robust University Minds (FORUM) Act through strengthening existing free expression on campus laws. The bill provides for legislative findings regarding the exercise of First Amendment righ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
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| WV | HB5563 | Intro
25% | Adding a proviso that any county will open attendance zones and an existing transportaion Arrangement shall not be permitted to close the open attendance zone reestablish closed boarders or modify existing transportation routes or arrangements for an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
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| WV | HB5586 | Intro
25% | Requiring publicly funded medical schools to teach certain life-saving methods
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
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| WV | HB5625 | Intro
25% | Relating to updating names of institutions of higher education and nondiscrimination in leadership positions
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
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| WV | HB5588 | Intro
25% | Transfer of Funds from Department of Economic Development to School Building Authority
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
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| WV | HB5598 | Intro
25% | Requiring a shcool administrator and local Board of Education to assess whether a student is in the foster care system or undre the supervision of Child Protective Services prior to being disiplined for a level 3 or 4 behavior policy violation
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
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| WV | HB5529 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the development of a plan to monitor and improve reading and math skills of children who are or have been in foster care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
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| WV | HB5527 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow persons who have a concealed carry license to carry a concealed handgun in or on the grounds of any primary or secondary educational facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| WV | HB5513 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Pierpont Community and Technical College Great Expectations Pilot Program. The bill provides for legislative findings. The bill provides for the enactment of the program. The bill establishes funding. Finally...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
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| WV | HB5517 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that schools begin no earlier that September 1 and end no later than May 31. The bill also increases the amount of remote learning days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
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| WV | HB5518 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is relating to adjust the school aid formula's transportation calculations from its current standard of student enrollment to school bus mileage traveled daily to provide assistance to larger counties that are mandated to off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
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| WV | HB5484 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to empower the state board of education to direct guidance to all local education agencies on what is appropriate for pre-kindergarten through five to be taught regarding health education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
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| WV | HB5442 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit adverse disciplinary or employment action in public schools for employees and students who refuse to give their pronouns or who refuse to call a person by a name or title that is inconsistent with that person's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| WV | HB5436 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the county superintendents, subject to approval of the county board, may employ and assign substitute teachers who are elected members of county boards for short term assignments of no more than nine days i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
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| WV | HB5431 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit county boards of education to send the parent or legal guardian of a student who is deemed "chronically disruptive" the pro-rated amount of their education and remove that student from the school system for a yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5428 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to exempt school buses with students on board from paying turnpike tolls.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5346 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clean up statutory provisions regarding the Hope Scholarship program to better reflect the intent and operation of the program. The bill also corrects unintended consequences of the microschool and learning pod legislat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
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| WV | HB5330 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Human Services to notify the county school superintendent and the local board of education president of the public school system where a child attends of any pending child protective service in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| WV | HB5300 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the State Board of Education to authorizing the State Board of Education to implement a two year county pilot program to change the school week from five days to four days subject to compliance with §18-5-4...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| WV | HB5325 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to add the flag of West Virginia to the instructional day pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States in schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5292 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to expand learning pod and microschool freedoms while giving students not attending public schools equal access to interscholastic and extracurricular activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| WV | HB5329 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prevent the use of state funds to pay costs for attending out-of-state private schools or receiving other services from an out-of-state provider.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| WV | HB5302 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require public elementary schools and secondary schools to display in a conspicuous place in each classroom of the school a durable poster or framed copy of the Ten Commandments that meets certain requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| WV | HB5290 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create Holocaust Education Week in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| WV | HB5277 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require all students enrolled in grades nine through twelve (9-12) to be provided with adoption awareness material upon request.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5336 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for school related immunization notifications.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| WV | HB5227 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require all public schools located within this state to give age-appropriate instruction on the Holocaust.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| WV | HB5189 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish tax credits for parents and legal guardians whose children are in a home schooling program or private school. The bill provides for an exception. Finally, the bill provides rule-making authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
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| WV | HB5139 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow teachers to bank any unused sick leave or personal leave to the next academic year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
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| WV | HB5124 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the restrictions of taxpayers to access online curriculum. The bill allows for any taxpayer to inspect additional instructional material adopted by the county board pursuant to including books in the classroom. F...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
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| WV | HB5152 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize elementary and middle school students enrolled in any private, parochial or church school or school of a religious order or other nonpublic school to participate in county basketball tournaments held at the en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
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| WV | HB5095 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require county boards of education to train at least one professional staff member at each school in grant writing procedures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
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| WV | HB5081 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require school personnel to pass a CPS background check prior to being hired.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
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| WV | HB5088 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require mandatory drug testing for all classes of employees of county commissions, the state of West Virginia, State Board of Education, and in K through 12 schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5075 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to amend required courses of education to include human growth and development related to pregnancy and human development inside the womb; required methods of presenting this instruction and adding a human growth and devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
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| WV | HB5199 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit parents to exempt their children from participating in this program by submitting a request in writing to the school that their children attend.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
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| WV | HB5195 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create "half day" positions for school service personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5196 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require all West Virginia high school students to pass a civics examination and the United States Naturalization Examination as a prerequisite for graduation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5111 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a Statewide Online Education Program to enable eligible students to earn high school graduation credit through the completion of publicly funded online courses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5059 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to define "work day" and "half work day" for school service personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
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| WV | HB5011 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the one-time free transfer for high school student-athletes and to create a new system for transferring high school student-athletes in general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
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| WV | HB5040 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Fast Track for Agriculture Education Endorsement Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
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| WV | HB5046 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the reporting of assessments and portfolio reviews to county boards of home schooled children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
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