| WV | SB860 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create alternative high-risk population public charter schools and permit an enrollment count of three times a year for funding purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-24
Referred to Finance on 2nd reading |
| WV | SB761 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require county school boards to publish an annual list of buildings that are closed, unused, or unoccupied for purposes of providing greater access to Charter Schools. Once a public charter school requests usage of a pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
Referred to Rules on 2nd reading |
| WV | SB750 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish a Fentanyl Poisoning Awareness Week for grades 6 through 12., to be known as "Laken's Law", relating fentanyl abuse prevention and drug poisoning awareness education in public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
Referred to Rules |
| WV | SB867 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow student-athletes to participate in competitive events and activities while playing for their school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB839 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide county boards of education with the option of seeking insurance coverage from licensed insurance carriers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| WV | SB817 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify eligibility and qualifications to serve as an appointed member of the state board of education, by prohibiting certain political and other activities and specifically permitting certain political activities
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB515 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit a public school student from being required to participate in instruction related to sexual orientation and gender identity if a parent, custodian, or guardian of the student objects in writing; require each pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB783 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to enact the West Virginia School Construction Alternatives Pilot Program Act to authorize county boards of education to enter into construction management at risk contracts for public school construction projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB715 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Stop the Bleed Act to require implementation of the act in county schools and to permit private donations and funding by the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education 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 | SB659 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the minimum benefit for certain annuitants with at least 20 years of total service.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| WV | SB598 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is generally relates to the Hope Scholarship Program. The bill provides that microschools and learning pods have the authority to issue secondary school diplomas. The bill provides that the annual Hope Scholarship Program app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Finance 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 | SB448 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require all public schools located within this state shall give age-appropriate instruction on the Holocaust.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
Referred to Rules on 2nd reading |
| 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 | SB553 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide a religious exemption to school attendance vaccines requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB531 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow charter schools to charge Hope Scholarship students for classes that students enroll in at the charter school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To Senate School Choice Committee |
| WV | SB523 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require public schools to notify parents when dispensing contraceptives to minors. The bill provides a definition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB510 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Children's Vision Act, requiring school children to have vision examinations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB511 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to use Department of Health and Human Resources group home funds to assist cadets' enrollment at the Mountaineer Challenge Academy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB519 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit cadets the Mountaineer Challenge Academy; to enroll in accredited virtual instructional courses online or to attend accredited courses, in person, in order to obtain a West Virginia Education Information System N...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To Senate 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 | SB505 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to codify a Parents' Bill of Rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB253 | Intro
25% | Establishing minimum student enrollment for school aid formula
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB465 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit schools from starting an instructional day any earlier than 7:45 a.m.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB324 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to change the name of the School Building Authority to the School Maintenance Authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB367 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill to create the Anti-Racism Act of 2024. The bill prohibits a school district, a public charter school, the West Virginia Board of Education, the West Virginia Department of Education, or any employee of the aforementioned enti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB409 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require all public schools to instruct students on foreign languages. The legislature finds as a public policy that learning a foreign language can improve math and reading outcomes, help a student focus better, and pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB376 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create obligations on law enforcement and CPS to notify certain school personnel of investigations regarding school employees involving certain conduct towards students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB423 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for voluntary private school immunization.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources 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 | SB404 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require education and safety protocols for students in grades 6 through twelve in this state and to protect the safety and security of students when using e-mail, chat rooms, web applications, and other forms of electro...
[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 | SB381 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission to promulgate legislative rules.
[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 | SB243 | Intro
25% | Requiring moment of silence at beginning of each school day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB290 | Intro
25% | Establishing three-year nontraditional school week pilot project
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB198 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the teaching of "divisive acts" and "critical race theory" in West Virginia public and charter schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB197 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit obscene materials in West Virginia schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
