| WV | HB5301 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide free feminine hygiene products to female students in public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4806 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to assign the use of bathrooms and multi-person common changing rooms by gender and to prohibit the usage of a designated room under this section by a person of the opposite sex, with exceptions for family members, renderi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4769 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify appropriate and inappropriate duties for school counselors while also providing the definition of a school counselor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | HB5227 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require all public schools located within this state to give age-appropriate instruction on the Holocaust.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5219 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the number of days a retired teacher may accept employment may extend beyond 140 days under specific conditions; and to prohibit reduction of benefits or requiring additional contributions for retirement be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB5075 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to amend required courses of education to include human growth and development related to pregnancy and human development inside the womb; required methods of presenting this instruction and adding a human growth and devel...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5199 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit parents to exempt their children from participating in this program by submitting a request in writing to the school that their children attend.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5196 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require all West Virginia high school students to pass a civics examination and the United States Naturalization Examination as a prerequisite for graduation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5080 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to change the eligibility age for certain retirement benefits within the Public Employees Retirement System and the State Teachers Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB5088 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require mandatory drug testing for all classes of employees of county commissions, the state of West Virginia, State Board of Education, and in K through 12 schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5168 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require all County School Superintendents to be elected by the voters of their respective counties for four-year terms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5197 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to include school resource officers ("SROs") as part of the school aid formula.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5111 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a Statewide Online Education Program to enable eligible students to earn high school graduation credit through the completion of publicly funded online courses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5124 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the restrictions of taxpayers to access online curriculum. The bill allows for any taxpayer to inspect additional instructional material adopted by the county board pursuant to including books in the classroom. F...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5152 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize elementary and middle school students enrolled in any private, parochial or church school or school of a religious order or other nonpublic school to participate in county basketball tournaments held at the en...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5011 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the one-time free transfer for high school student-athletes and to create a new system for transferring high school student-athletes in general.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5040 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Fast Track for Agriculture Education Endorsement Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5046 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the reporting of assessments and portfolio reviews to county boards of home schooled children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4990 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow the WVSSAC to pull the coaching credentials of any coach found guilty of illegally recruiting students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4959 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require school performance reports for middles school and high schools in this state to be provided to the Legislature, providing information to be included in the report, including college admission test preparation, t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4968 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is further the process of West Virginia becoming an Agreement State with the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission; transferring authority and responsibility over sources of low-level radiation from other state agencies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Energy and Manufacturing Committee |
| WV | HB4955 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify the law relating to the nonpartisan election of county superintendents of schools. The bill provides general provisions for such an election. The bill specifies the arrangement of the ballot to include such offic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4960 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to add requirements for a career exploration course to grades seven and eight educational instruction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4988 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to make classroom sizes equal so that aides can be best utilized and one on one time with teachers and students can be maximized without losing the use of an aide.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4969 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this is to withhold a high school diploma from a student who causes at least $1,000 in damage due to destruction of property or defacement of school grounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4946 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to add as required material in public schools the teaching of the full Constitution of the United States, The Federalist Papers, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letters from Birmingham Jail.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4896 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that a student who transfers schools is ineligible for interscholastic athletic events for a period of 365 days from the date of entry to the new school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4839 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require that online instructors who have contracts with the state board or county boards be provided copies of all IEP, 504, and all other accommodation information relevant to students enrolled in their classes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4833 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require that any student in the 11th or 12th grade, who has been placed in a "free/elective/assistant" period, be informed of online college course opportunities available for them.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4847 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide public school access for patriotic youth groups.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4846 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to display the official motto of the United States of America in public elementary and secondary schools and in institutions of higher education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4862 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require that all plans of the School Access Safety Act; provide for not less than two school resource officers or prevention resources officers for each school system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4810 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to give a tax credit against taxes actually owed, for qualifying expenses of parents or guardians of children in grade levels K through 12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4773 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit students in eighth and ninth grade to attend summer school in order to raise their grades and establish academic eligibility to play sports in the fall.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4820 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that students at public schools of the state may not be charged for parking at their schools or for supplies required for their classes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4778 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to grant jurisdiction to supervise youth sport league athletic events to county boards of education and the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission and to establish the West Virginia Youth Sports Safety Commis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4774 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the section of code allowing for the academic eligibility of transfer students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4821 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require certain standards for virtual students in West Virginia public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4808 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the number of days a retired teacher may accept employment may extend beyond 140 days under specific conditions; and to prohibit reduction of benefits or requiring additional contributions for retirement be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB4701 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the "Stay in State" tax credit that allows residents of this state who remain in state after graduating with an undergraduate or associate degree from a state institution to be granted a tax credit for the tot...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4749 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for fair pay and maximized employment of disabled persons; create a state "Employment First" policy that encourages agencies to facilitate employment of disabled persons; establish a task force to initiate these...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4663 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the State Board of Education to implement trauma-informed practices in grades K-12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4649 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove language requiring specific appropriations in order for the State Board of Education, State Department of Education, and the State Superintendent of Schools to provide education to children and adults housed in c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4670 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to the Foundation allowance for transportation cost.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4608 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require drug testing of all classes of employees in K through 12 schools. It also provides for yearly random drug testing of 10 percent of all employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4604 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Virtual Public Schools Act. The bill provides a short title, legislative findings and declaration of intent, and definitions. The bill also provides accountability requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4610 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a fund for, and a grant program dedicated to, the purposes of constructing, renovating and/or expanding agricultural, vocational and technical training facilities at West Virginia primary and secondary schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Economic Development and Tourism Committee |
| WV | HB4414 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit hazing in K-12 public education and set penalties and procedures for violation of the article.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4457 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirements for assessments for homeschoolers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4199 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit a beneficiary under the State Teachers Retirement System who has been approved for a retirement with a joint life annuity to convert to the maximum life annuity if the spouse dies within the first five years of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
