| WV | HB4709 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide information to high school students regarding career and technical educational opportunities during and after high school, to create a career and technical education for middle school students, and to codify the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 - House Journal |
| WV | HB4768 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to increase the number of out-of-state medical students receiving in-state tuition rates who agree to practice for a specific time within West Virginia from two to four program participants per medical school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 - House Journal |
| WV | HB4830 | Pass | The purpose of this bill relates generally to training requirements for school personnel; it modifies the frequency of training from annually to upon employment and every three years thereafter, for suicide prevention awareness, child sexual abuse pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal |
| WV | HB4832 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the state superintendent's reports regarding the finances of school districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | HB4860 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the general education teacher in an integrated classroom for education of exceptional children not responsible for accommodation logs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | HB4863 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to create the Patriotic Access to Students in Schools Act. The bill defines patriotic societies. Finally, the bill provides for the opportunity to speak and recruit at public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/22/2024 - House Journal |
| 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] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | HB4851 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize local school boards, public charter schools, and private or religious schools to employ school security officers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
House Message received |
| 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] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal |
| WV | HB4951 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to enact the Interstate Compact for School Psychologists.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal |
| 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] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal |
| WV | HB5105 | Veto | The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the vaccine requirements for public virtual schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Vetoed by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | HB5158 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clean up statutory provisions regarding the special education code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal |
| 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] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| 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] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| 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] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | HB5514 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is enhance training requirements for county boards of education members by increasing the number of hours required for training, authorizing the State Board to require members to attend additional training when beneficial, mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | HB5540 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to mandate Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Education, which shall be known as "Laken's Law".
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | HB5553 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to require all West Virginia high school students to requiring students to pass a minimum of one credit of computer science and technology courses, establish requirements for the classes, establish rulemaking, and create t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Communicated to Senate |
| 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] | 2024-03-09
Approved by Governor 3/27/24 - House Journal |
| WV | HB4313 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to codify a Parents' Bill of Rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Referred to Judiciary |
| WV | HB5137 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize and require the state auditor to conduct audits of all county boards of education relating to income or funds received, regardless of source.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
Referred to Government Organization |
| WV | HB5180 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to remove requirements to submit certain evidence on behalf of home-schooled children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | HB5289 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to establish a partnership between Workforce West Virginia through its Division of Workforce Development and the West Virginia Board of Education for the implementation of the Plasma Games teaching program in high schools ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | HB5551 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to require certain licensees to obtain continuing education on domestic violence or abuse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| 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 | HB4299 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize teachers in elementary or secondary schools to carry concealed firearms and be designated as a school protection officer (SPO).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To Senate Judiciary 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 | HB5607 | Intro
25% | Relating to public charter school’s application for funding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5087 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow Tier II members of the Teachers Retirement System to apply accrued annual and sick leave, on the basis of one day's retirement service credit for each two days of accrued annual and sick leave, toward an increase ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5661 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide free feminine hygiene products to students in public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5658 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the School Building Authority to make an assessment of school safety needs for any new or existing projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5673 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to unify of county school districts in the state; establish findings; require county school districts be unified with other county school districts by July 1, 2027; require State Board of Education to study and provide rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5687 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia School Patrol Canine Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5654 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to ensure that GED training is offered to inmates on a timely basis and to ensure that it is meaningfully available at the time of parole or release.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Jails and Prisons Committee |
| WV | HB5671 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow injured athletes to have two extra semesters of high school eligibility if they are injured and unable to compete.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5653 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the one-time free transfer for high school student-athletes and to grandfather in students who transferred during the 2023-2024 school year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5179 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to create "Jaycie's Law." The bill provides for legislative intent. The bill allows for excused absences for student parents, with time periods for natural births and C-section births. The bill provides for excused absence...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources 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 | HB5210 | Intro
25% | Relating to voluntary private school immunization
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5563 | Intro
25% | Adding a proviso that any county will open attendance zones and an existing transportaion Arrangement shall not be permitted to close the open attendance zone reestablish closed boarders or modify existing transportation routes or arrangements for an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5556 | Intro
25% | Comprehensive Services Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues 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 | HB4696 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to fund the West Virginia State Athletic Commission by implementing a 3% gate fee for all ticket and pay-per-view sales, live streaming right, video rights, sold for such contest and any rebroadcast rights from sanctioned ...
[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 | HB5027 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the minimum amount of food purchased from in-state producers. The bill creates penalties for noncompliance and breach of contract.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5200 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to require School counselors serving students in preschool through the 12th grade to participate in the School Counselors Conference at least once every two years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | HB5527 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow persons who have a concealed carry license to carry a concealed handgun in or on the grounds of any primary or secondary educational facility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5518 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is relating to adjust the school aid formula's transportation calculations from its current standard of student enrollment to school bus mileage traveled daily to provide assistance to larger counties that are mandated to off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Education Committee |
