| WV | HB4896 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that a student who transfers schools is ineligible for interscholastic athletic events for a period of 365 days from the date of entry to the new school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Education Committee |
| WV | SB253 | Intro
25% | Establishing minimum student enrollment for school aid formula
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4839 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require that online instructors who have contracts with the state board or county boards be provided copies of all IEP, 504, and all other accommodation information relevant to students enrolled in their classes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4833 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require that any student in the 11th or 12th grade, who has been placed in a "free/elective/assistant" period, be informed of online college course opportunities available for them.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4847 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide public school access for patriotic youth groups.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4846 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to display the official motto of the United States of America in public elementary and secondary schools and in institutions of higher education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4862 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require that all plans of the School Access Safety Act; provide for not less than two school resource officers or prevention resources officers for each school system.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4840 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to include outside legal services under the state purchasing requirements to require the solicitation of bids.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Government Organization 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 | HB4773 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit students in eighth and ninth grade to attend summer school in order to raise their grades and establish academic eligibility to play sports in the fall.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4820 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that students at public schools of the state may not be charged for parking at their schools or for supplies required for their classes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Education 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 | HB4778 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to grant jurisdiction to supervise youth sport league athletic events to county boards of education and the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission and to establish the West Virginia Youth Sports Safety Commis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB4774 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the section of code allowing for the academic eligibility of transfer students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4821 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require certain standards for virtual students in West Virginia public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4808 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the number of days a retired teacher may accept employment may extend beyond 140 days under specific conditions; and to prohibit reduction of benefits or requiring additional contributions for retirement be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | SB144 | Engross
50% | Requiring each county board to ensure that its meetings are open to public through in-person attendance and broadcast live on its website
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB143 | Engross
50% | Creating WV Guardian Program
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-15
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 | 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 | HB4663 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the State Board of Education to implement trauma-informed practices in grades K-12.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House Education 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 | 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 | HB4649 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove language requiring specific appropriations in order for the State Board of Education, State Department of Education, and the State Superintendent of Schools to provide education to children and adults housed in c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4670 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to the Foundation allowance for transportation cost.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House 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 | HB4650 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify and update the definition of a school bus.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To House 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 | HB4608 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require drug testing of all classes of employees in K through 12 schools. It also provides for yearly random drug testing of 10 percent of all employees.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4604 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Virtual Public Schools Act. The bill provides a short title, legislative findings and declaration of intent, and definitions. The bill also provides accountability requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House 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 | HB4610 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a fund for, and a grant program dedicated to, the purposes of constructing, renovating and/or expanding agricultural, vocational and technical training facilities at West Virginia primary and secondary schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Economic Development and Tourism Committee |
| WV | HB4260 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that when a registered owner or lessee, of a motor vehicle that vehicle is involved in the overtaking and passing a stopped school, is charged for a violation and misdemeanor offense, the state is not relieved o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Technology and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | HB4414 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit hazing in K-12 public education and set penalties and procedures for violation of the article.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4457 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the requirements for assessments for homeschoolers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House 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 | HB4345 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit West Virginia from joining or participating in the National School Boards Association ("NSBA").
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House 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 | HB4332 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow accrued annual or sick leave to be used for retirement service credit in the Teachers Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To House Pensions & Retirement 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 | HB4182 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to calculate the maximum number of students during the course of a year at alternative and year-round schools based on the maximum attendance for that school year.
[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 |
