| 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 | HB5607 | Intro
25% | Relating to public charter school’s application for funding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | HB5504 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that funds from the Lottery Education Fund, the State Lottery fund, and the Excess Lottery Fund be used for childhood education in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5517 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that schools begin no earlier that September 1 and end no later than May 31. The bill also increases the amount of remote learning days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House 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 | HB5484 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to empower the state board of education to direct guidance to all local education agencies on what is appropriate for pre-kindergarten through five to be taught regarding health education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House 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 | 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 | HB5442 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit adverse disciplinary or employment action in public schools for employees and students who refuse to give their pronouns or who refuse to call a person by a name or title that is inconsistent with that person's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5431 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit county boards of education to send the parent or legal guardian of a student who is deemed "chronically disruptive" the pro-rated amount of their education and remove that student from the school system for a yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
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 | 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 | SB189 | Engross
50% | Providing for substantial deference to state school superintendent's interpretations of school laws
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4777 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that county boards of education may allow staff members in public schools to eat lunch meals at no cost to the staff members, if there is sufficient food after every student has been fed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
On 1st reading, House Calendar |
| WV | HB5356 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit registered sex offenders from being within 1,000 feet of a school-based health center, requiring notices to be posted on school-based health centers, and imposing criminal penalties for registered sex offenders...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5346 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clean up statutory provisions regarding the Hope Scholarship program to better reflect the intent and operation of the program. The bill also corrects unintended consequences of the microschool and learning pod legislat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5330 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Human Services to notify the county school superintendent and the local board of education president of the public school system where a child attends of any pending child protective service in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5300 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the State Board of Education to authorizing the State Board of Education to implement a two year county pilot program to change the school week from five days to four days subject to compliance with §18-5-4...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5325 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to add the flag of West Virginia to the instructional day pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States in schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5292 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to expand learning pod and microschool freedoms while giving students not attending public schools equal access to interscholastic and extracurricular activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5329 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prevent the use of state funds to pay costs for attending out-of-state private schools or receiving other services from an out-of-state provider.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5302 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require public elementary schools and secondary schools to display in a conspicuous place in each classroom of the school a durable poster or framed copy of the Ten Commandments that meets certain requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5290 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create Holocaust Education Week in West Virginia.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Education Committee |
