You have voted HB-4693: Expanding the amount of promise scholarship funds awarded to persons majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Providing medical examination transportation services for students who seek support after experiencing sexual violence [SB-343]
The purpose of this bill is to require state intuitions of higher education, to the extent feasible, to provide to their students without charge and in a manner that protects student confidentiality, transportation to and from a local hospital for a trained health care provider to administer a sexual assault forensic medical examination kit where a student seeks support after experiencing sexual violence.
SB-343: Providing medical examination transportation services for students who seek support after experiencing sexual violence
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Woelfel
Filed For Introduction on 01/12/2024
Creating mobile training team for school safety [SB-363]
The purpose of this bill is to create a mobile training team for the purpose of school safety. The bill provides for regional mobile training officers. The bill empowers the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security to create the program. The bill provides for coordination between school protection officers and the mobile training team. The bill permits elementary and secondary school teachers and administrators to carry concealed weapons. The bill classifies such persons who carry concealed weapons as school protection officers. The bill provides
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SB-363: Creating mobile training team for school safety
Sponsored by: Sen. John Taylor
Filed For Introduction on 01/12/2024
To establish a grant program for colleges that take steps to establish themselves as Student Basic Needs campuses [HB-4637]
The purpose of this bill is to the Student Basic Needs Campus Initiative; establishing the Student Basic Needs Campus Initiative; authorizing the creation of the Student Basic Needs Campus Program office; establishing the duties of the Hunger Free Campus Program office; authorizing the Student Basic Needs Campus Program office to administer and advise the chancellor on the Student Basic Needs Campus Grant Program; establishing the requirement for designation as a Student Basic Needs Campus; setting requirements for awarding Student Basic Needs grants;
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HB-4637: To establish a grant program for colleges that take steps to establish themselves as Student Basic Needs campuses
Sponsored by: Rep. Kayla Young
Filed For Introduction on 01/11/2024
Hunger-Free Campus Act [HB-4629]
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.
HB-4629: Hunger-Free Campus Act
Sponsored by: Rep. Kayla Young
Filed For Introduction on 01/11/2024
Creating the Economic Development Tuition Waiver [HB-4271]
The purpose of this bill is to provide tuition fees at an institution of higher education for certain persons, who are not yet residents, at the rate for residents of the state. The bill also provides requirements to be met by these persons before qualified for resident tuition rates, based upon employment by a business or organization that is established in this state as part of a program under the Economic Development Act of 1985.
HB-4271: Creating the Economic Development Tuition Waiver
Sponsored by: Rep. Kayla Young
Filed For Introduction on 01/10/2024
HB-4500: To provide all National Merit Scholars free tuition to any West Virginia higher education institution in order to keep these scholars in state
Sponsored by: Rep. Laura Kimble
Filed For Introduction on 01/10/2024
You have voted HB-4500: To provide all National Merit Scholars free tuition to any West Virginia higher education institution in order to keep these scholars in state.