Education (higher)
West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating to requirements to receive PROMISE Scholarship [SB-692]
The purpose of this bill is to include the Classical Learning Test (CLT) as a requirement for the PROMISE Scholarship when applicable.
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Requiring higher education institutions to accept Classic Learning Test [SB-695]
The purpose of this bill is to require higher education institutions to accept the Classic Learning Test.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Health Science and Medical Student Loan Programs [HB-3150]
The purpose of this bill is to revise, update, and streamline the requirements governing the Medical Student Loan Program and Health Sciences and Mental Health Provider loan repayment programs.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Authorizing higher education institutions to enter into agreements relating to student-athlete's name, image, or likeness [SB-647]
The purpose of this bill is to provide rights, responsibilities, authorities and limitations relating to the name, image, and likeness of an individual who is participating as a student-athlete in an institution of higher education. This article is new, therefore,
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Amend section providing for waiver of tuition and fees for older persons auditing certain college classes [HB-3081]
The purpose of this bill is to expand tuition and fee waivers or adjustments for senior citizens by including in the statute certain nonresident students and by decreasing the eligibility age from 65 years to 60 years of age or older.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating to eligibility for WV Invests Grant Program [SB-631]
The purpose of this bill is to extend the West Virginia Invests Grant Program to an associate degree or certificate in a post-secondary program for emergency medical services
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Establishing the West Virginia TEACH Scholarship Program [HB-3034]
The purpose of this bill is to increase the quality of child-care in this state and to reinvigorate the workforce participation rate by increasing access to, and the affordability of, higher education to child-care workers. In doing so, child-care facilities will be able to attract and retain a reliable staff, workers will have an opportunity to receive higher education, and child-care facilities will increase their capacity -- allowing more people to enter the workforce in this state. In enacting this legislation, it is the intention of the Legislature
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Limiting use of state funding under Hope Scholarship program for out-of-state private schools and providers [SB-635]
The purpose of this bill is to prevent the use of state funds to pay costs for attending out-of-state private schools or for receiving other services from an out-of-state provider.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Guaranteed course transfer bill [HB-3024]
The purpose of this bill is to provide for a comprehensive system of articulation and transfer of credit between and among the state's public institutions of higher education; to create and establish the duties of the statewide articulation and transfer advisory committee and its subcommittees; to mandate the acceptance of guaranteed statewide transfer pathways; to provide certain guarantees in the statewide articulation agreements; and to create and maintain degree transfer pathways, including those involving dual enrollment and career and technical
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating to trespassing on premises of higher education institution [SB-609]
The purpose of this bill is to clarify what constitutes trespassing at an institution of higher education.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Hunger-Free Campus Act [HB-2833]
The purpose of this bill is to create the "Hunger-Free Campus Act," which requires the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission to establish a grant program to address food insecurity among students enrolled in public institutions of higher education and appropriates $1 million.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
To define a statewide common definition of first-generation status for college admission [HB-2855]
The purpose of this bill is to provide a definition to comply with the federal definition of a "first generation" status for college admission.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Permitting current campus police officers to participate in WV DNR Police Officer Retirement System [SB-582]
The purpose of this bill is to permit current campus police officers in this state to participate in the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Police Officer Retirement System. The bill also mandates newly hired campus police officers to participate in the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources Police Officer Retirement System beginning on January 1, 2026.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating to Social Media privacy and educational institutions [HB-2845]
The purpose of this bill is to establish social media privacy for current and prospective students or employees of higher education institutions operating in the state of West Virginia for content not publicly available on the internet.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
To establish the Higher Education Heath and Aid Grant [HB-2737]
The purpose of this bill is to create the "Higher Education Health and Aid Grant," which requires the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission to establish a grant program to address food, health, and hygiene insecurities among students enrolled in public institutions of higher education and appropriates $450,000 per calendar year.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating to the establishment of a trades based elective course for public high school students [HB-2798]
The purpose of this bill is to create a trades-based elective pilot program for high school students.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Providing certified law-enforcement officers tuition-free education up to highest tuition rate for public higher education in WV [SB-566]
The purpose of this bill relates to providing all certified Law-Enforcement Officers ("LEOs") tuition free education up to the highest rate for higher education in this state.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
To create the Southern Coalfield Resiliency and Revitalization Program [HB-2720]
The purpose of this bill is to create the Southern Coalfield Resiliency and Revitalization program to identify and prioritize existing resources that can be directed to support economic development efforts in the Boone, Logan, McDowell, Mingo, and Wyoming counties; establish a revitalization council to manage these activities; and provide technical assistance support, services, and resources to support community revitalization of the Southern Coalfield counties.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating to “In God We Trust” signs donated in schools [HB-2782]
The purpose of this bill is to display the official motto of the United States of America in public elementary and secondary schools and in institutions of higher education.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating to creating a State Advisory Council on Establishing a Military College [HB-2718]
The purpose of this bill is to create a state advisory council to explore the viability and potential benefits of creating a military college patterned after one or more of the six senior military colleges.