| WV | SB159 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require that the party affiliation for county school board members be displayed beside their name on the ballot for election.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 119, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB172 | Pass | The purpose of this bill generally relates to Local School Improvement Councils. The bill revises council membership requirements. The bill requires minutes be taken at every council meeting. The bill revises requirements pertaining to annual council...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 102, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB170 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to include three types of cancer for which rebuttable presumption of injury from employment exists for firefighters and provides that the presumption for the three types of cancer expires July 1, 2027, unless extended by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 270, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB148 | Pass | Establishing auto-renewal program for wildlife licenses
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 193, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB300 | Pass | Relating to the organization of the Office of the Inspector General
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 208, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB269 | Pass | Excluding test strips from definition of drug paraphernalia
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 57, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB280 | Pass | Allowing teachers in public schools to teach intelligent design
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 103, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB222 | Pass | Exempting WV veterans from certain fees and charges at state parks
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 265, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB439 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to Authorize certain 911 personnel to be members of the Emergency Medical Services Retirement System under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 210, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB331 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to allow counties to save excess funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 226, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB378 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the use of lit tobacco products in a motor vehicle while individuals 16 years of age or under are present. The bill also provides that the misdemeanor offense is a secondary offense that may only be charged if ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 209, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB445 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to reduce the certification periods for EMS personnel from four years to two years to align certification periods with those of the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians and to reduce the certification renewal...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 211, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB453 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require any pharmacy benefit manager ("PBM") who contracts with PEIA to be entirely transparent in providing its full data around pricing and payments for drugs and to pharmacies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 142, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB466 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require the State Board of Education to develop a Safety While Accessing Technology education program to be taught to students from the 3rd to 12th grades.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 104, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB487 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to provide for period reviews of required professional development for teachers and education staff
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 243, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB503 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to protect belief-based student organizations by expanding student organizations that are protected against certain types of discrimination by a state institution of higher education and expanding the types of discriminati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 154, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB507 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to repeal West Virginia EDGE which became unnecessary last year with the passage of the dual enrollment pilot program in HB2005.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 52, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB504 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to modify elements of a felony offense pertaining to when a school employee or volunteer engages in sexual intercourse, intrusion, or contact with students.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 83, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB543 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to clarify the authority of state institutions of higher education to enter into agreements and contractual relationships with one or more corporations formed by the state institution of higher education for purposes of fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 156, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB544 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to raise the threshold from $25,000 to $50,000 for the requirement of bids for municipal public works projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 66, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB547 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to authorize legislative rules for the Higher Education Policy Commission regarding Guidelines for Employing and Evaluating Presidents, Higher Education Adult Part-Time Student (HEAPS) Grant Program, West Virginia Providin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 178, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB557 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to establish time off or rate of pay for firefighters who are required to work during holidays.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 233, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB568 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to change the focus from truancy and unexcused absences to a multi-tiered system of support and all absences, both excused and unexcused; limit the number of parental excuses that can be accepted each school year as docume...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 105, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB602 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to require county boards of education to develop cardiac emergency response plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 106, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB806 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to remove several required submissions to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability (LOCEA); and remove a requirement for LOCEA to review the progress and implementation of the comprehensive systems ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 107, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB865 | Pass | The purpose of this bill is to change the "Curator" of the Department of Arts, Culture, and History to the "Cabinet Secretary" of the Department of Arts, Culture, and History. The bill also adds the Educational Broadcasting Authority as a section und...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-23
Chapter 147, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 |
| WV | SB152 | Engross
50% | Displaying official US motto in public schools
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Senate requests House to concur |
| WV | SB614 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to address elementary behavior intervention and safety; specify requirements applicable to when a grade kindergarten through six teacher in an elementary setting determines that the behavior of a student is violent, threat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Senate requests House to concur |
| WV | SB727 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to revise the process for county boards of education to hire aides, early childhood classroom assistant teachers, and secretaries.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-09
Communicated to House |
| WV | SB352 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to modify the Unborn Child Protection act. The bill provides for definitions. The bill creates a process of informed consent. The bill provides for printed information. The bill provides for the creation of an Internet web...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar |
| WV | SB601 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia Women's Bill of Rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar |
| WV | SB740 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-08
Communicated to Senate |
| WV | SB741 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to create the criminal offenses of creating, producing, distributing, receiving, or possessing with intent to distribute visual depictions artificial intelligence created child pornography when no actual minor is depicted.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
On 3rd reading with right to amend, Special Calendar |
| WV | SB785 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to add the Foster care ombudsman as a person to have access to records concerning a child or juvenile.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
Communicated to Senate |
| WV | SB859 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-03-08
On 3rd reading, House Calendar |
| WV | SCR35 | Intro
25% | Requesting study on efficiency and accountability of county boards of education
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Referred to Rules |
| WV | SCR36 | Intro
25% | Requesting study of School Building Authority
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-06
Referred to Rules |
| WV | SB292 | Engross
50% | Hunger-Free Campus Act
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| WV | SCR11 | Pass | US Marine Corps PFC Noel Harper Fields Memorial Bridge
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
House Message received |
| WV | SB468 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-02-29
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | SJR6 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this resolution is to authorize the incorporation of churches or religious denominations which choose to incorporate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB813 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-02-29
To House Education Committee |
| WV | SR56 | Pass | Memorializing life of Honorable Warren Randolph McGraw Sr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
Completed legislative action |
| WV | SR58 | Pass | Designating February 29, 2024, as WV Arts Day
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
Completed legislative action |
| WV | SR57 | Pass | Recognizing accomplishments of Hurricane High School Red Hot Show Choir
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
Completed legislative action |
| WV | SCR33 | Intro
25% | Requesting Division of Highways to erect signs in Marion County for "Home of Legendary Coach, Nick Saban"
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee |
| WV | SB162 | Engross
50% | Establishing Summer Feeding for All Program
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SR55 | Pass | Memorializing life of Honorable William Wayne Bailey, Jr.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
Completed legislative action |
| WV | SB861 | Engross
50% | The purpose of this bill is to increase support and professional development for educators; expand factors used to determine how funds for supporting county-level implementation of the comprehensive systems for teacher and leader induction and profes...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Education Committee |
| WV | SB842 | Engross
50% | 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] | 2024-02-27
To House Education Committee |
