Bill Text: WV SB280 | 2024 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Allowing teachers in public schools to discuss scientific theories
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-04-23 - Chapter 103, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 [SB280 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2024-SB280-Enrolled.html
WEST virginia legislature
2024 regular session
Enrolled
Committee Substitute
for
Senate Bill 280
By Senators Grady, Stuart, Taylor, Roberts, Phillips, Deeds, Tarr, and Azinger
[Passed March 9, 2024; in effect 90 days from passage]
AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §18-5-41a, relating to allowing a public school classroom teacher to respond to student inquiries or answer student questions about scientific theories of how the universe and/or life came to exist.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 5. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.
§18-5-41a. Allowing discussion of certain scientific theories.
No public school board, school superintendent, or school principal may prohibit a public school classroom teacher from responding to student inquiries or answering questions from students about scientific theories of how the universe and/or life came to exist.
