| WV | HB4416 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the heart health equity inclusion program. The bill provides for legislative findings. Finally, the bill provides for required physical education program in physical fitness. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4586 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow for county boards of education to employ armed veterans to protect West Virginia schools. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4480 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create of the West Virginia STEM Scholarship Act. The bill provides for a short title. The bill provides for legislative findings and a purpose. The bill provides for the West Virginia STEM Scholarship Program and sets ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4495 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission to promulgate legislative rules.West Virginia Code §18-2-25 was amended by two bills passed during the 2020 Regular Session of the Legislature, by the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4171 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make certain reforms to the special community development pilot program. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4387 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prevent discrimination at institutions of higher education at West Virginia post-secondary institutions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4220 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide that microschool tuition and fees are qualifying expenses for Hope Scholarship accounts. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4493 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt school buses with students on board from paying West Virginia Turnpike tolls. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4542 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that each county school board designate a homeless education coordinator and set out the duties of the position. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4282 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to allow for students that have been affected by COVID-19 to be allowed another year to complete high school based upon academics and remain with their parents another year, so long as they satisfy other necessary requirem... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4367 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to discontinue the use of common core standards and assessments in the state. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4446 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require county boards of education to provide days prior to early voting during primary, general, and special elections for registering eligible students to vote and for the transportation of registered students to appr... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4338 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create a mechanism for evaluation and implementation of school ingress and egress assessments by the School Building Authority, in consultation with the Department of Education, the School Safety and Security Administra... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4345 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | HB4290 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to amend the state Constitution to give the people the powers of initiative, referendum, and recall. The resolution sets forth its scope, limitations, and exceptions. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4491 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit home schooling of any child in homes where there is suspected or known child abuse or neglect, or domestic violence by a parent or person instructing the child. This shall be known as "Raylee's Law." [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4455 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that all schools maintain cameras in areas where students are present in schools. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4369 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require that teachers have advanced credit hours in work toward or completion of a master's degree in their teaching field in order to receive additional salary for master's degree work. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4557 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the contracted employment substitute teachers for 180 instructional days at all schools with more than 200 students. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4241 | Intro
Sine Die | 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
Sine Die | 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 | HB4513 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to grant full-time employees of county boards of education three months of paid leave, following the birth of a child, or the placement of a child in the home through adoption or foster care. The bill provides that the lea... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4510 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create the "Student Rescue Act." The bill provides for students to make up time lost due to a natural disaster or pandemic lasting longer than 21 days and if there is enough interest from parents/students. The bill prov... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4204 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to make service employees with National Association for Pupil Transportation Certification as a Director or Supervisor of Pupil Transportation eligible as candidates for professional employee positions involving supervisio... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4172 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to expand tuition and fee waivers or adjustments for senior citizens by including in the statute certain nonresident students and by decreasing the eligibility age from 65 years to 60 years of age or older. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4412 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require county boards to employ at least one full time nurse for each public school. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4012 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | HB4271 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide tuition fees at an institution of higher education for certain persons, who are not yet residents, at the rate for residents of the state. The bill also provides requirements to be met by these persons before qu... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4303 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to have full-time athletic trainers at public high schools in West Virginia. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4182 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | HB4471 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to set the school calendar to 170 days of instruction and 30 noninstructional days and to change the acceptable functions during noninstructional days. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4553 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for uniform procedures, agreement forms and benefits to ensure a teacher's exchange of his or her duty-free lunch to perform duties at the school is a voluntary exchange.. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4186 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require each high school student to pass a test on the United States Constitution as a requirement to graduation from high school. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4365 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to exempt personal income earned by individuals working as teachers at primary and secondary schools from personal income tax. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4200 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to increase county board of education compensation to $250 per meeting. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4509 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to have social workers identified for each elementary, middle school, junior high school, and high school in the state who are to be available to teachers, principals, and other school staff upon request, to help improve o... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4490 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to support statewide expansion of Healthy School Meals for All through maximizing participation in the Community Eligibility Provision or other universal meal options or by prioritizing expansion at the local level for und... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4308 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to itemize additional disciplinary issues to be addressed by the Department of Education and reports to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability. It also requires the Department of Education to incl... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4346 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to provide for a moment of silence at the beginning of each school day. The bill prevents teachers from being able to discuss the substance of what children engage in during the moment of silence. Finally, the bill encoura... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4488 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to support statewide expansion of Healthy School Meals for All through maximizing participation in the Community Eligibility Provision or other universal meal options or by prioritizing expansion at the local level for und... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4248 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to require the State Department of Education to develop a pilot program to provide mental and behavioral health services as an alternative to suspending students for disruptive behaviors. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4572 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish social media privacy for current and prospective students or employees of higher education institutions operating in the state of West Virginia for content not publicly available on the internet. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4262 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to create three separate job titles for school bus operators based on years of service. The bill establishes pay scales. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4243 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Mountaineer Games Sports League. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4468 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit anti-stereotyping in public school training and curriculum. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4414 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | HB4242 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Commission on American History Enrichment to review public school curriculum to make recommendations for revisions of public school history course material that more accurately reflects the roles of minori... [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4457 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 | HB4343 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to remove testing and portfolio requirements for homeschooled students. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB4421 | Intro
Sine Die | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit drag shows from being performed in front of minors and to prohibit drags shows in schools and libraries. [Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10 To House Education Committee |