West Virginia Senate Bill 154

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 10-0)
Status: Introduced on February 12 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-21 - To Judiciary
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

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 public school to afford the parent, custodian, or guardian of a child subject to instruction with respect to sexual orientation and gender identity advance written notification of such instruction and of their right to exempt the child from participation; prohibit a public school and the county board employees assigned to the school from knowingly giving false or misleading information to the parent, custodian, or guardian of a student regarding the student's gender identity or intention to transition to a gender that is different than the sex listed on a student's official birth certificate or certificate issued upon adoption if the certificate was issued at or near the time of the student's birth; require a public school employee to report a student's request for an accommodation that is intended to affirm the student's gender identity from a person employed by the public school to an administrator employed by the county board and assigned to the school; and require the administrator to report the student's request to the student's parent, custodian, or guardian.

Prohibiting instruction related to sexual orientation or gender identity

Sen. Amy Nichole Grady [R]	Sen. Darren Thorne [R]	Sen. Brian Helton [R]	Sen. Eric Tarr [R]
Sen. Patricia Rucker [R]	Sen. Tom Willis [R]	Sen. Rollan Roberts [R]	Sen. Vince Deeds [R]
Sen. Craig Hart [R]	Sen. Jack Woodrum [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-21	Senate	To Judiciary
2025-02-21	Senate	Committee substitute reported, but first to Judiciary
2025-02-12	Senate	To Education
2025-02-12	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2025-02-12	Senate	To Education then Judiciary
2025-02-12	Senate	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18	5	29	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=154&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb154%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=154
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb154%20sub1.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=154