| WV | SB282 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to change the expiration date for certain provisions that pertain to allowing a person receiving retirement benefits under the Teachers Retirement System to accept employment as a critical needs substitute teacher for an u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
On 3rd reading |
| WV | SB283 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to expand the grade levels that the course of study in personal finance can be completed in for the purpose of counting toward satisfying the personal finance course requirement for high school graduation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
On 3rd reading |
| WV | SB8 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit the installation of newborn safety devices at emergency service medical facilities, police departments, or sheriff's detachments that have been designated as safe-surrender sites and providing conditions for the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-24
On 3rd reading |
| WV | SB154 | Intro
25% | 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 pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SJR8 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this resolution is to propose an amendment to the Constitution to provide that in all elections held in West Virginia only citizens of the state who are citizens of the United States are qualified to vote.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB37 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to combat absenteeism among educators by providing a cash bonus in exchange for unused days of personal leave.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB292 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require doula services to be covered by Medicaid and PEIA and to increase reimbursement rates.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To Senate Finance Committee |
| 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
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 | SB552 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to the Certified Business Industrial Expansion Development Program administered by the Department of Economic Development. The bill renames the expansion development program administered by the department. The bill re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Economic Development Committee |
| WV | SB551 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to increase the penalty for second degree murder.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB122 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to update the school aid formula by establishing a minimum net enrollment of 1,200 students for each county.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | SB286 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clarify that neither a parent nor legal guardian of a minor child shall be denied access to the minor child's medical records.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB544 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates to ventilation and fire suppression for limited use food preparation facilities. The bill provides for legislative findings. The bill creates definitions. The bill provides for enactment of the section. Finally, the b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Government Organization Committee |
| WV | SB536 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill relates generally to county economic opportunity development districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Economic Development 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 | SB517 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require medical professionals to report to the Bureau for Public Health all injuries and side effects from vaccines. And requiring the Commissioner of the Bureau for Public Health to produce an annual report for the Leg...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| 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
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB509 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify the criminal penalties imposed on a parent, guardian, custodian, or person in a position of trust in relation to a child for child abuse resulting in injury and child abuse or neglect creating risk of injury.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB481 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow off duty law enforcement officers to carry concealed weapons at public schools and at public school events.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| 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
To Senate Education Committee |
| 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
To Senate Education Committee |
| 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
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB244 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia Women's Bill of Rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SR3 | Pass | Creating Select Committee on Substance Use Disorder and Mental Health
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
Completed legislative action |
| WV | SB252 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require coverage and reimbursement for home blood pressure monitoring devices for certain persons diagnosed with hypertension.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SB257 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide protection to owners of private property who allow others to use their property to access cemeteries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary 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 | 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
To Senate Education Committee |
| 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 | 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 | SB284 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to reinstate, with minor revisions, changes to §18-5-1a that passed during the 2024 regular session but were unintentionally overridden by a subsequently passed bill; and to automatically set the compensation rate for c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB258 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow Tier II members of the Teachers Retirement System to apply accrued annual and sick leave, on the basis of one day's retirement service credit for each one day of accrued annual and sick leave, toward an increase i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Pensions Committee |
| WV | SB199 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to address elementary behavior intervention and safety; to clarify that nothing in the bill be construed to conflict with certain federal laws; and to specify requirements applicable to when a grade kindergarten through si...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB198 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the criminal offenses of creating, producing, distributing, or possessing with intent to distribute artificial intelligence-created visual depictions of child pornography when no actual minor is depicted; to s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB186 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to amend the witness fee rate in West Virginia to match the current federal rate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB254 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a new criminal offense of manipulating a photograph, image, video clip, movie, or similar recording containing sexually explicit conduct by the insertion thereof of a visual image of an actual minor so as to crea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB253 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create a Chronic Weight Management Task Force to study obesity and make report of its findings to the Joint Committee on Health. The bill sets forth the members of the task force and provides for administrative support ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To Senate Health and Human Resources 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 | 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 |
