Providing programs to train firefighters and emergency medical technicians [HB-2586]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Healthcare ]
[Community Development ]
The purpose of this bill is to require certain community and technical college or career and technical education centers to offer training for students to become firefighters or emergency medical technicians.
HB-2586: Providing programs to train firefighters and emergency medical technicians
Sponsored by: Rep. Mick Bates
Do Pass, But First To Education on 02/12/2019
Relating to the Antihazing Law [HB-2520]
[Education ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
The purpose of this bill is to modify the definition of hazing to address any type of organization whose members include students at any public or private institution of higher education.
HB-2520: Relating to the Antihazing Law
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Fleischauer
Filed For Introduction on 01/18/2019
The Campus Self Defense Act [HB-2519]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
The purpose of this bill is to allow a person who holds a current and valid license to carry a concealed deadly weapon to carry such a weapon on the campus and in the buildings of a state institution of higher education. It provides exceptions and immunity to an institution for a licensee’s intentional or unintentional use of a firearm while carrying it under the act. The bill seeks to acknowledge that violence against disarmed law-abiding citizens is an increasing, but unnecessary, occurrence. The bill is an attempt by the Legislature to reaffirm
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HB-2519: The Campus Self Defense Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Jim Butler
To Judiciary on 03/01/2019
You have voted HB-2455: Redirecting excise tax revenue on bottled soft drinks from West Virginia University schools to the Public Employees Insurance Agency.
You have voted HB-2377: Making Promise scholarships available for students pursuing certificates or degrees through an accredited community and technical college.
Permitting public employees the right to collectively bargain [HB-2350]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
The purpose of this bill is to permit public employees the right to collectively bargain. The bill provides for an exclusive representative. The bill provides a procedure. The bill sets forth matters subject to collective bargaining.
HB-2350: Permitting public employees the right to collectively bargain
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Thompson
Filed For Introduction on 01/11/2019
Expiring the PROMISE Scholarship Program, and establishing the Promise for All Scholarship Program [HB-2065]
[Education ]
[Student Loans ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
The purpose of this bill is to create a new scholarship available to all West Virginians upon graduation from high school that remain in West Virginia to pursue an associate or bachelor’s degree of $10,000 per year. The only academic requirement is that the person have a 2.0 GPA, and graduate in no more than four years for an undergraduate degree or two and a half years for an associate degree; if the recipient, after graduation, stays and has full-time employment in West Virginia, repayment is forgiven on a year-to-year basis; if the person does
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HB-2065: Expiring the PROMISE Scholarship Program, and establishing the Promise for All Scholarship Program
Sponsored by: Rep. Tim Miley
Filed For Introduction on 01/09/2019
You have voted HB-2059: Expanding the amount of PROMISE scholarship funds awarded to persons majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
HB-2034: Prohibiting West Virginia institutions of higher learning and state agencies from discriminating against graduates of private, nonpublic or home schools by requiring them to submit to alternative testing
Sponsored by: Rep. Tom Fast
Filed For Introduction on 01/09/2019
You have voted HB-2034: Prohibiting West Virginia institutions of higher learning and state agencies from discriminating against graduates of private, nonpublic or home schools by requiring them to submit to alternative testing.
Relating to relocation or closure of state higher education institutions [HB-2021]
[Education ]
[Economic Development ]
The purpose of this bill is to insure that closure or transfer of any publicly-funded higher education institution be preapproved by the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability (LOCEA); to require both an economic and educational study to be presented to the LOCEA before it may be closed or transferred.
HB-2021: Relating to relocation or closure of state higher education institutions
Sponsored by: Rep. Tom Fast
Filed For Introduction on 01/09/2019
Providing for a program of instruction in workforce preparedness [HB-2004]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Small Business ]
[Economic Development ]
[Community Development ]
The purpose of this bill is to provide better communication to students and parents on career and technical programs of study that begin in high school and lead to industry- recognized credentials, certificates of applied science and associate degrees in high-demand, high wage occupations in the state. The bill begins with a general list of some of the topics to be included in a program of study or integrated into existing courses that reflect skills and attributes commonly sought by employers in their prospective employees. Guidelines are also
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HB-2004: Providing for a program of instruction in workforce preparedness
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Dean
Chapter 97, Acts, Regular Session, 2019 on 04/11/2019