| WV | SB487 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide for period reviews of required professional development for teachers and education staff
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 243, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB806 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to remove several required submissions to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability (LOCEA); and remove a requirement for LOCEA to review the progress and implementation of the comprehensive systems ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 107, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4829 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirement that service personnel have a high school diploma or its equivalent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 244, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4883 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to raise the salaries of certain state employees: West Virginia State Police and certain personnel; public school teachers; and school service personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 207, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB4838 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require county boards of education to inform persons, who are employed as a long-term substitute teacher, about completing IEP and 504 plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 245, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5056 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow for service personnel to serve as substitute workers under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 246, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5252 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide a minimum experience requirement for the director or coordinator of services class title involving school transportation. The bill provides eligibility for candidates for professional employee positions involvin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 247, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5262 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to establish the creation of a Teachers Bill of Rights. The bill defines the duties of counselors. The bill defines data to be provided. The bill defines the special education student to instructor ratio, a waiver process,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 248, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5405 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide additional professional development and support to West Virginia educators by utilizing a portion of existing monies from the state aid funding formula for teacher and leader induction and professional growth ne...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 249, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | HB5650 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to permit a suspended employee who presents no clear and present danger of disruption, disorder, riot of the event, or an immediate threat to public safety to attend public events on school property while serving their sus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-22
Chapter 250, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB614 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to address elementary behavior intervention and safety; specify requirements applicable to when a grade kindergarten through six teacher in an elementary setting determines that the behavior of a student is violent, threat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Senate requests House to concur |
| WV | SB727 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to revise the process for county boards of education to hire aides, early childhood classroom assistant teachers, and secretaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Communicated to House |
| WV | SB859 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to limit persons required to pass appropriate West Virginia Board of Education approved basic skills and subject matter tests in the area for which licensure is being sought as a condition for the issuance of a professiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
On 3rd reading, House Calendar |
| WV | HB5425 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to add experience needed for principals to apply and to grant waivers of experience required in employment of professional education personnel if nobody applies with the experience needed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB861 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to increase support and professional development for educators; expand factors used to determine how funds for supporting county-level implementation of the comprehensive systems for teacher and leader induction and profes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4902 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to match the salaries of Aide V (Special Education Aides) with that of Early Childhood Classroom Assistant Teachers and then increasing that amount by 5% for the Aide V position; increase the pay of self-contained, special...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5598 | Intro
25% | Requiring a shcool administrator and local Board of Education to assess whether a student is in the foster care system or undre the supervision of Child Protective Services prior to being disiplined for a level 3 or 4 behavior policy violation
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4372 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to raise the number of years of service where teachers stop getting raises from 35 to 40 years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4202 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide a $900 monthly increase to state school service personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4767 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide an across-the-board raise for teachers' minimum salaries to bring about parity with teacher salaries in surrounding states.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB680 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the compensation of classroom teachers certified in special education and assigned full-time to a self-contained classroom; and to increase the compensation of aides assigned full-time to a self-contained class...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | HB5436 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the county superintendents, subject to approval of the county board, may employ and assign substitute teachers who are elected members of county boards for short term assignments of no more than nine days i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4776 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to include elementary schools in the school disciplinary section as amended during the 2023 Regular Session of the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | HB5372 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove multiple severability clauses in the West Virginia Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB4263 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify the definitions and pay grades of certain school cafeteria personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4331 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide an optional lump sum payment of accrued personal leave to full-time employees of a county school board upon termination of full-time employment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Finance 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 | SB502 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to combat absenteeism among educators by providing a cash bonus in exchange for unused days of personal leave.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5095 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require county boards of education to train at least one professional staff member at each school in grant writing procedures.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5081 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require school personnel to pass a CPS background check prior to being hired.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5195 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create "half day" positions for school service personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
| WV | SB561 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the number of days for which completion of employment in any one school year, substitute teachers, except retired teachers and other retired professional educators employed as substitutes, accrue seniority exclus...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | HB5139 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow teachers to bank any unused sick leave or personal leave to the next academic year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5059 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to define "work day" and "half work day" for school service personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Education Committee |
| WV | SB521 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require that whenever a county board enters into an extracurricular assignment agreement with bus operators and the bus operators are compensated during days the bus runs are not made, any special needs bus aides who ha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | HB4948 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove all fees associated with teacher licensure, certification, and registering the completion of continuing credit hours.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-19
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4893 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the minimum salary for teachers to $50,000.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4903 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to define a critical vacancy and require board staff certified in the subject matters where there are vacancies to act as substitutes in those position until someone is hired to fill that position.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Education Committee |
| WV | SB485 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to raise the salaries of certain state employees: West Virginia State Police and certain personnel; public school teachers; and school service personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4792 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create an in-person training course for principals in public schools. The bill informs teachers of due process rights. Finally, the bill provides for an Individualized Education Program format.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4713 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require candidates for employment as director of transportation for a county school district to have a minimum of two years' experience as a bus operator.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4733 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow county boards to employ eligible classroom aides as classroom teachers when certain conditions are met.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Education Committee |
| WV | SB341 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide bonuses for unused days of personal leave for school personnel, including professional and service employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB363 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a mobile training team for the purpose of school safety. The bill provides for regional mobile training officers. The bill empowers the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security to create the program. The bil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB260 | Intro
25% | Approving overtime pay for teachers
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | HB4241 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish cultural competency training for teachers obtaining or renewing a teaching license in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4579 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to protect West Virginia public school teachers who refuse to use pronouns that are inconsistent with a student's biological sex.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4012 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to change the minimum ratio of school cooks to one cook for every 110 meals prepared and served.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4494 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to classroom teacher personal leave. The bill allows leave bank days to be used to add service for any retirement system or to extend insurance coverage.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB4557 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the contracted employment substitute teachers for 180 instructional days at all schools with more than 200 students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Education Committee |
