| WV | HB5277 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require all students enrolled in grades nine through twelve (9-12) to be provided with adoption awareness material upon request.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Education Committee |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB5249 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit vaccine mandates for certain schools in this state. The bill acknowledges that student athletes must still adhere to certain guidelines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Health & Human Resources 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 | 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 | 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 | HB5189 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish tax credits for parents and legal guardians whose children are in a home schooling program or private school. The bill provides for an exception. Finally, the bill provides rule-making authority.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5143 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow for religious exemptions of vaccine requirements in primary and secondary schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5144 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit vaccine mandates for schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Health & Human Resources 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 | 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 | HB5191 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that exemptions to distribution and display to minor of obscene matters do not apply to public libraries or museums with regard minors in elementary or middle schools. The bill also requires public libraries or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Judiciary 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | SB293 | Engross
50% | Creating the Glucagon for Schools Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5060 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow partisan elections for county board of education members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Judiciary 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB5036 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to codify a Parents' Bill of Rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-23
To House Seniors, Children, and Family Issues 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
