West Virginia Senate Bill 434 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)
Status: Introduced on January 23 2023 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-01-23 - To Education
Pending: Senate Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

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 bill provides for coordination between school protection officers and the mobile training team. The bill permits elementary and secondary school teachers and administrators to carry concealed weapons. The bill classifies such persons who carry concealed weapons as school protection officers. The bill provides that any teacher or administrator may become a school protection officer. The bill provides for requirements and exceptions. The bill provides for an incentive in the form of a bonus to be given to school protection officers. Finally, the bill provides that this incentive may be revoked if school protection officers lose their classification.

School Safety Act

Sen. Jay Taylor [R]	Sen. Mike Azinger [R]	Sen. Laura Wakim Chapman [R]	Sen. Robert Karnes [R]
Sen. Patrick Martin [R]	Sen. Mark Maynard [R]	Sen. Rupert Phillips [R]	Sen. Randy Smith [R]
Sen. Charles Clements [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-01-23	Senate	To Education
2023-01-23	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2023-01-23	Senate	To Education then Judiciary
2023-01-23	Senate	Filed for introduction

SB10 (Similar To) 2023-05-01 - Chapter 174, Acts, Regular Session, 2023

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
18A	2	16	New Code	See Bill Text
61	7	11a	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=434&year=2023&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb434%20intr.htm&yr=2023&sesstype=RS&i=434