| WV | SB566 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to providing all certified Law-Enforcement Officers ("LEOs") tuition free education up to the highest rate for higher education in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
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| WV | SB548 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to the creation of the Safety and Violence Education for Students Act. The bill provides for training programs. The bill provides for the Department of Education to develop trainings and materials. Finally, the bill p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
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| WV | SB559 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require legal injunctions and legal actions involving the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission to be filed in either Wood County or Kanawha County.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
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| WV | SB554 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish "Raylee's Law" and prohibit the authorizing of home schooling when there is a pending child abuse or neglect investigation against a child's parent or guardian or against a person instructing the child.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB558 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require public high school students to take a computer science course prior to graduating.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB533 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify where legal proceedings may be filed involving the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB531 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to define assault and battery against athletic officials as felony offenses; and providing criminal penalties for the offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB529 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to change the minimum amount of insurance that county boards of education must maintain.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
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| WV | SB516 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide extra state aid to school districts for students enrolled in extremely remote schools; and prohibit a county board from closing an extremely remote school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
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| WV | SB506 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to enhance pay for teachers; provide for market pay enhancement for teacher salaries in certain circumstances; provide for certification to the State Auditor; set out distribution of funds; require reporting; make funds su...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
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| WV | SB477 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require an ambulance at any middle school or high school football game under the control, supervision, and regulation of the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
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| WV | SB471 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to revise the school funding formula to be student-based and ensuring equal accessibility to funds for school maintenance and consolidation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
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| WV | SB478 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to repeal the requirement that the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission modify its rules to allow high school students to transfer schools and retain athletic eligibility, so that the Commission may modify ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
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| WV | SB499 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize institutions of higher education to contract with a private corporation to operational, economic, fiscal, and educational development activities and services related to intercollegiate athletics' programs of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
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| WV | SB470 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow students, coaching staff, and athletic trainers to participate in non-school athletic activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
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| WV | SB480 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow licensed substitute and full-time teachers to serve as parent volunteers without an additional background check.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
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| WV | SB450 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia Guardian Act. The bill allows the county school boards to contract for participation in the program. The bill defines terms. The bill sets out the authority of independent contractors partici...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
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| WV | SB424 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Restoring Sanity Act; prohibit 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 entities fr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
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| WV | SB432 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require county school boards to adopt policies intended to limit the use of personal cell phones and other electronic communication devices in public schools for purposes other than educational, medical, and emergency p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
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| WV | SB434 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create Alyssa's Law which requires each public school building to be equipped with at least one panic alarm for use in a school security emergency; and requires the panic alarm to be directly linked to local law enforce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
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| WV | SB457 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit students from possessing cell phone in the classroom, and to require the State Board of Education to promulgate legislative rules to implement this prohibition.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
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| WV | SB442 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Released Time Education Act. The bill provides for a title. The bill creates definitions. The bill provides for released time excusal policies. The bill provides credit for released time courses...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
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| WV | SB449 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit compressed air and rimfire shooting teams in public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
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| WV | SB180 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow all public schools to instruct students on world languages. The legislature finds learning a world language can improve student math and reading outcomes, improve academic focus, and provide additional career oppo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| WV | SB209 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Guardian program to provide public safety and/or security on public school grounds and buildings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| WV | SB179 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to grant school administrators the ability to refuse to promote a student to the next grade if the child has missed 20 or more days of school. This is in an effort to curb unexcused absences.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB89 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize alternative high risk population public charter schools and provide for rulemaking by state board to determine funding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB251 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require each county board of education to ensure that all of its meetings are open to the public through in-person attendance and that the audio and video of its meetings are broadcast live to the public through an inte...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| WV | SB285 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Guardian Program. The bill sets out the purpose of the program and allows county school boards to hire independent contractors to provide safety services in schools. The bill defines terms, sets...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| WV | SB220 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize a child sexual abuse and sexual violence prevention program and in-service training in child sexual abuse prevention.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB261 | 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] | 2025-02-12
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| WV | SB277 | 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] | 2025-02-12
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| WV | SB42 | 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] | 2025-02-12
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| WV | SB119 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the Stop the Bleed Act to require implementation of the act in county schools and to permit private donations and funding by the Legislature.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB90 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require county school boards to publish an annual list of buildings that are closed, unused, or unoccupied for purposes of providing greater access to Charter Schools. Once a public charter school requests usage of a pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| WV | SB54 | 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] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB47 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission to promulgate legislative rules.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB197 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to limit persons required to pass appropriate West Virginia Board of Education approved basic skills and subject matter tests in the area for which licensure is being sought as a condition for the issuance of a professiona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB94 | 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] | 2025-02-12
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| WV | SB155 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Summer Feeding for All initiative that will encourage county school systems to look for innovative ways to provide assistance to students in need to access nutritious foods during summer break and other ti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB245 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create the "Hunger-Free Campus Act," which requires the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission to establish a grant program to address food insecurity among students enrolled in public institutions of higher e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB255 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow student-athletes to participate in competitive events and activities while playing for their school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| WV | SB48 | 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] | 2025-02-12
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| WV | SB187 | 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] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB214 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a homeless education coordinator in counties designated by the state board as an urban county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB41 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to approve overtime pay for teachers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB280 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require "In God We Trust" signs be displayed in public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| WV | SB80 | Intro
25% | 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 provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
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| WV | SB256 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is enhance training requirements for county boards of education members by increasing the number of hours required for training, authorizing the State Board to require members to attend additional training when beneficial, mo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB53 | 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] | 2025-02-12
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