| WV | SB870 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Anti-Woke 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 from prov...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
Referred to Judiciary on 2nd reading |
| WV | SB860 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to create alternative high-risk population public charter schools and permit an enrollment count of three times a year for funding purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-24
Referred to Finance on 2nd reading |
| WV | SB761 | 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] | 2024-02-22
Referred to Rules on 2nd reading |
| WV | SB750 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish a Fentanyl Poisoning Awareness Week for grades 6 through 12., to be known as "Laken's Law", relating fentanyl abuse prevention and drug poisoning awareness education in public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
Referred to Rules |
| WV | HB5021 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to update cardiac response plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-19
On 2nd reading, House Calendar |
| WV | SB867 | 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] | 2024-02-19
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | SB817 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to modify eligibility and qualifications to serve as an appointed member of the state board of education, by prohibiting certain political and other activities and specifically permitting certain political activities
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | HB5607 | Intro
25% | Relating to public charter school’s application for funding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | SB515 | 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] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB783 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to enact the West Virginia School Construction Alternatives Pilot Program Act to authorize county boards of education to enter into construction management at risk contracts for public school construction projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | HB5661 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide free feminine hygiene products to students in public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5658 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require the School Building Authority to make an assessment of school safety needs for any new or existing projects.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5673 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to unify of county school districts in the state; establish findings; require county school districts be unified with other county school districts by July 1, 2027; require State Board of Education to study and provide rec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5687 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the West Virginia School Patrol Canine Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5671 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to allow injured athletes to have two extra semesters of high school eligibility if they are injured and unable to compete.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5653 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove the one-time free transfer for high school student-athletes and to grandfather in students who transferred during the 2023-2024 school year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5664 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to establish the Mountaineer Scholars Grant Program, which would provide a $100 grant to each child born in West Virginia to establish a qualified higher education savings program account through the West Virginia State Tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5210 | Intro
25% | Relating to voluntary private school immunization
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Health & Human Resources Committee |
| WV | HB5563 | Intro
25% | Adding a proviso that any county will open attendance zones and an existing transportaion Arrangement shall not be permitted to close the open attendance zone reestablish closed boarders or modify existing transportation routes or arrangements for an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5619 | Intro
25% | To increase the pay for retired state employees by 5% over three years beginning in 2025
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB5529 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide for the development of a plan to monitor and improve reading and math skills of children who are or have been in foster care.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5518 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is relating to adjust the school aid formula's transportation calculations from its current standard of student enrollment to school bus mileage traveled daily to provide assistance to larger counties that are mandated to off...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Education Committee |
| WV | SB715 | 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] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| WV | HB5504 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that funds from the Lottery Education Fund, the State Lottery fund, and the Excess Lottery Fund be used for childhood education in the state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5517 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that schools begin no earlier that September 1 and end no later than May 31. The bill also increases the amount of remote learning days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5484 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to empower the state board of education to direct guidance to all local education agencies on what is appropriate for pre-kindergarten through five to be taught regarding health education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5442 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prohibit adverse disciplinary or employment action in public schools for employees and students who refuse to give their pronouns or who refuse to call a person by a name or title that is inconsistent with that person's...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-05
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5431 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit county boards of education to send the parent or legal guardian of a student who is deemed "chronically disruptive" the pro-rated amount of their education and remove that student from the school system for a yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Education Committee |
| WV | SB598 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is generally relates to the Hope Scholarship Program. The bill provides that microschools and learning pods have the authority to issue secondary school diplomas. The bill provides that the annual Hope Scholarship Program app...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5393 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide a cost-of-living increase, based on the annual increase in the consumer price index, for persons under the Public Employees Retirement Act and Teachers Retirement System that are at least 60 years of age and tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB4777 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that county boards of education may allow staff members in public schools to eat lunch meals at no cost to the staff members, if there is sufficient food after every student has been fed.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
On 1st reading, House Calendar |
| WV | HB5346 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to clean up statutory provisions regarding the Hope Scholarship program to better reflect the intent and operation of the program. The bill also corrects unintended consequences of the microschool and learning pod legislat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5372 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to remove multiple severability clauses in the West Virginia Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-30
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | HB5300 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to authorize the State Board of Education to authorizing the State Board of Education to implement a two year county pilot program to change the school week from five days to four days subject to compliance with §18-5-4...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5325 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to add the flag of West Virginia to the instructional day pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States in schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5292 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to expand learning pod and microschool freedoms while giving students not attending public schools equal access to interscholastic and extracurricular activities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5329 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to prevent the use of state funds to pay costs for attending out-of-state private schools or receiving other services from an out-of-state provider.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5302 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require public elementary schools and secondary schools to display in a conspicuous place in each classroom of the school a durable poster or framed copy of the Ten Commandments that meets certain requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5277 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require all students enrolled in grades nine through twelve (9-12) to be provided with adoption awareness material upon request.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5312 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide a 15% cost-of-living adjustment for retired public employees and school personnel.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | HB5301 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide free feminine hygiene products to female students in public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To House Finance Committee |
| WV | HB4806 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to assign the use of bathrooms and multi-person common changing rooms by gender and to prohibit the usage of a designated room under this section by a person of the opposite sex, with exceptions for family members, renderi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| WV | SB579 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide a $1,000 cost-of-living adjustment to certain retirees of the Public Employees Retirement System and the State Teachers Retirement System.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Finance Committee |
| WV | HB5227 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require all public schools located within this state to give age-appropriate instruction on the Holocaust.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5219 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to provide that the number of days a retired teacher may accept employment may extend beyond 140 days under specific conditions; and to prohibit reduction of benefits or requiring additional contributions for retirement be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To House Pensions & Retirement Committee |
| WV | SB302 | 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] | 2024-01-25
Referred to Rules on 1st reading |
| WV | SB448 | 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] | 2024-01-25
Referred to Rules on 2nd reading |
| WV | HB5075 | 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] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5199 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to permit parents to exempt their children from participating in this program by submitting a request in writing to the school that their children attend.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
| WV | HB5196 | Intro
25% | The purpose of this bill is to require all West Virginia high school students to pass a civics examination and the United States Naturalization Examination as a prerequisite for graduation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Education Committee |
