| WV | HB5289 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to establish a partnership between Workforce West Virginia through its Division of Workforce Development and the West Virginia Board of Education for the implementation of the Plasma Games teaching program in high schools ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
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| WV | HB5180 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to remove requirements to submit certain evidence on behalf of home-schooled children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
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| WV | HB5425 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to add experience needed for principals to apply and to grant waivers of experience required in employment of professional education personnel if nobody applies with the experience needed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
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| WV | SB867 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow student-athletes to participate in competitive events and activities while playing for their school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
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| WV | SB817 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify eligibility and qualifications to serve as an appointed member of the state board of education, by prohibiting certain political and other activities and specifically permitting certain political activities
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
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| WV | SB783 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to enact the West Virginia School Construction Alternatives Pilot Program Act to authorize county boards of education to enter into construction management at risk contracts for public school construction projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
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| WV | HB5200 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to require School counselors serving students in preschool through the 12th grade to participate in the School Counselors Conference at least once every two years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
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| WV | SB715 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Stop the Bleed Act to require implementation of the act in county schools and to permit private donations and funding by the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
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| WV | SB680 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the compensation of classroom teachers certified in special education and assigned full-time to a self-contained classroom; and to increase the compensation of aides assigned full-time to a self-contained class...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
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| WV | HB4776 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to include elementary schools in the school disciplinary section as amended during the 2023 Regular Session of the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
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| WV | SB584 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to include Salem University in the PROMISE Scholarship program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
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| WV | HB4769 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify appropriate and inappropriate duties for school counselors while also providing the definition of a school counselor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
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| WV | SB558 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require publicly-funded medical schools to teach the most current evidence-based, life-saving methods including abortion pill reverse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
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| WV | SB561 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the number of days for which completion of employment in any one school year, substitute teachers, except retired teachers and other retired professional educators employed as substitutes, accrue seniority exclus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
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| WV | SB521 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require that whenever a county board enters into an extracurricular assignment agreement with bus operators and the bus operators are compensated during days the bus runs are not made, any special needs bus aides who ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
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| WV | SB510 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Children's Vision Act, requiring school children to have vision examinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
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| WV | SB511 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to use Department of Health and Human Resources group home funds to assist cadets' enrollment at the Mountaineer Challenge Academy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
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| WV | SB519 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit cadets the Mountaineer Challenge Academy; to enroll in accredited virtual instructional courses online or to attend accredited courses, in person, in order to obtain a West Virginia Education Information System N...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
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| WV | SB465 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit schools from starting an instructional day any earlier than 7:45 a.m.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
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| WV | SB334 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to enable Bluefield State University and West Virginia State University to offer associate degrees on their campus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
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| WV | SB409 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require all public schools to instruct students on foreign languages. The legislature finds as a public policy that learning a foreign language can improve math and reading outcomes, help a student focus better, and pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
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| WV | SB376 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create obligations on law enforcement and CPS to notify certain school personnel of investigations regarding school employees involving certain conduct towards students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
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| WV | SB361 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Promise for a Promise Act.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
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| WV | SB345 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a homeless education coordinator in counties designated by the state board as an urban county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
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| WV | SB324 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to change the name of the School Building Authority to the School Maintenance Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
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| WV | SB341 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide bonuses for unused days of personal leave for school personnel, including professional and service employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
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| WV | SB404 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require education and safety protocols for students in grades 6 through twelve in this state and to protect the safety and security of students when using e-mail, chat rooms, web applications, and other forms of electro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
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| WV | SB363 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a mobile training team for the purpose of school safety. The bill provides for regional mobile training officers. The bill empowers the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security to create the program. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
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| WV | SB381 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission to promulgate legislative rules.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
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| WV | SB243 | Intro
25% | Requiring moment of silence at beginning of each school day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
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| WV | SB290 | Intro
25% | Establishing three-year nontraditional school week pilot project
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
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| WV | SB260 | Intro
25% | Approving overtime pay for teachers
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
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| WV | SB198 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the teaching of "divisive acts" and "critical race theory" in West Virginia public and charter schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
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