Bill Text: WV HB2697 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: To prohibit colleges, universities, and community colleges to charge for students for transcripts
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-20 - To House Education [HB2697 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2025-HB2697-Introduced.html
WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2025 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 2697
By Delegates Dittman, Moore, Drennan, Pritt, Crouse, Mazzocchi, Petitte, Willis, Chiarelli, Stephens, and Miller
[Introduced February 20, 2025; referred to the Committee on Education then Finance]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new article, designated §18B-22-1, relating to forbidding all state-funded colleges, universities, and community colleges from charging students for transcripts.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
article 22. Transcripts.
§18B-22-1. Charges for transcripts not permitted.
No state-funded college, university, community college, or technical college may charge its students, former students, or graduates for transcripts.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to forbid state-funded higher education institutions from charging for transcripts.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
