Bill Text: WV HB4950 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requiring county boards of education to provide one social worker for each 1000 students
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-11 - To House Education [HB4950 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2020-HB4950-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2020 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 4950
By Delegates Angelucci, Lavender-Bowe, Longstreth, Walker and S. Brown
[Introduced February 11, 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 §18-5-18d, relating to requiring county boards of education to provide one social worker for each 1000 students.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 5. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.
§18-5-18d. School social workers.
Beginning with the school year 2022-2023, each county board shall employ, full-time, at least one school social worker licensed under §30-30-1 et seq. of this code for every 1000 kindergarten through seventh grade pupils in net enrollment or major fraction thereof.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require county boards of education to provide one social worker for each 1000 students.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
