Bill Text: WV HB2799 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requiring county boards of education to conduct regular structural inspections of school facilities and structures
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-01 - To House Education [HB2799 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2019-HB2799-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2019 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 2799
By Delegate Kessinger
[Introduced February 1, 2019; Referred
to the Committee on Education then Finance.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §18-5-9 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to requiring county boards of education to conduct regular structural inspections of school facilities and structures; and requiring boards to establish a schedule of rotating inspections for all schools every 10 years.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 5. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.
§18-5-9. Schoolhouses, buildings and equipment; health of pupils; repairs; medical and dental clinics; required structural inspections.
(a) The board shall provide:
(1) By purchase, lease, building or otherwise, a sufficient number of suitable schoolhouses and other buildings to meet the educational needs of its district;
(2) The necessary furniture, fixtures, apparatus, fuel, and all necessary supplies for the schools;
(3) For the health and cleanliness of the pupils;
(4) For the repair and good order of the school grounds, buildings and equipment.
The board may also provide for medical and dental clinics.
(b) The board shall conduct regular structural inspections of all school facilities and structures in which students may be present during a day of education.
(c) County boards shall establish a schedule of rotating inspections so that every facility in the county is inspected at least once every 10 years.
NOTE: 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 10 years.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
