Bill Text: WV SB280 | 2024 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Allowing teachers in public schools to discuss scientific theories
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-04-23 - Chapter 103, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 [SB280 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2024-SB280-Comm_Sub.html
WEST virginia legislature
2024 regular session
Committee Substitute
for
Senate Bill 280
By Senators Grady, Stuart, Taylor, Roberts, Phillips, Deeds, Tarr, and Azinger
[Originating in the Committee on Education; reported January 17, 2024]
A BILL to amend and reenact §18-5-46 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to allowing a public school classroom teacher to discuss scientific theories of how the universe and/or life came to exist.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 5. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.
§18-5-46. Requiring teacher to change grade prohibited; teacher recommendation relating to promotion; allowing discussion of certain theories.
(a) No teacher may be required by a principal or any other person to change a student's grade on either an individual assignment or a report card unless there is clear and convincing evidence that there was a mathematical error in calculating the student's grade.
(b) The teacher's recommendation relating to whether a student should be promoted to the next grade level shall be a primary consideration when making such a determination.
(c) No public school board, school superintendent, or school principal shall prohibit a public school classroom teacher from discussing or answering questions from students about scientific theories of how the universe and/or life came to exist.
