Bill Text: WV HB5139 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allow teachers to bank personal and sick days.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-25 - To House Education [HB5139 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2024-HB5139-Introduced.html

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WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2024 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 5139

By Delegates Hornby, Statler, Thorne, Willis, Ferrell, Dittman, Maynor, Clark, Hite, Heckert, and Hillenbrand

[Introduced January 25, 2024; 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 §18A-2-16, relating to allowing a teacher to bank sick leave or personal leave days to the following academic year.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

 

ARTICLE 2. SCHOOL PERSONNEL.

§18A-2-16. Option to bank sick leave or personal leave days to the following year.

Any unused sick leave or personal leave by a public school instructor in this state may be carried over to the next academic year.

 

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to allow teachers to bank any unused sick leave or personal leave to the next academic year.

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