Bill Text: WV HB4681 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Requiring schools to offer elective vocational courses in middle schools

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-04 - To House Education [HB4681 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2020-HB4681-Introduced.html

FISCAL NOTEWEST virginia legislature

2020 regular session

House Bill 4681

By Delegates Campbell, D. Jeffries, Anderson, J. Kelly, Atkinson, Lavender-Bowe, Canestraro, Lovejoy, Fluharty, Bates and Miller

[Introduced February 04, 2020; Referred to the Committee on Education then Finance]

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §18-5-15e, relating to requiring schools to offer elective vocational courses in middle schools.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:


ARTICLE 5. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.


§18-5-15e. Elective vocational courses for middle schools.

County boards of education shall provide elective vocational courses for middle schools by the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year. The courses provided shall follow rules to be developed by the State Board of Education and may include such courses as home economics, industrial arts, and agriculture.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require schools to offer elective vocational courses in middle schools.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.

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