Education (higher)
West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Expanding the amount of promise scholarship funds awarded to persons majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics [HB-4693]
[Education ]
[Science ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
The purpose of this bill is to increase PROMISE scholarships to persons majoring in STEM (Science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields to pay the full cost of tuition, room and board.
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Tuition and fee exemptions for service-connected Disabled Veterans and their dependents. [HB-4720]
[Veterans ]
[Education ]
[Disabilities ]
[Funding ]
The purpose of this bill is to provide a waiver of tuition and fees at state institutions of higher education and community and technical colleges for military veterans, their spouses, and dependents, when that veteran has a service-related disability of 50 percent or greater.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Providing medical examination transportation services for students who seek support after experiencing sexual violence [SB-343]
[Education ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
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.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Enabling WVSU and Bluefield State University to offer associate degrees [SB-334]
[Education ]
The purpose of this bill is to enable Bluefield State University and West Virginia State University to offer associate degrees on their campus.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Promise for Promise Act [SB-361]
The purpose of this bill is to create the Promise for a Promise Act.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Providing funding for Hope Scholarship Program [SB-327]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
The purpose of this bill is to establish parameters for providing funding for the Hope Scholarship Program; and providing definitions.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Relating to voluntary private school immunization [SB-423]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
The purpose of this bill is to provide for voluntary private school immunization.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Creating mobile training team for school safety [SB-363]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
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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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
To establish a grant program for colleges that take steps to establish themselves as Student Basic Needs campuses [HB-4637]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Food ]
[Poverty ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
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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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Requiring Higher Education Policy Commission to create and administer PROMISE Plus Program [SB-259]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Requiring Higher Education Policy Commission to create and administer PROMISE Plus Program
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Hunger-Free Campus Act [HB-4629]
[Education ]
[Food ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Health ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Healthcare ]
[Poverty ]
[Human Services ]
[Student Loans ]
[Children and Youth ]
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 2024 Regular Session
Hunger-Free Campus Act [SB-292]
[Food ]
[Education ]
[Poverty ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Community Development ]
[Children and Youth ]
Hunger-Free Campus Act
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Mountaineer Games Sports League [HB-4243]
[Sports ]
The purpose of this bill is to establish the Mountaineer Games Sports League.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Amend section providing for waiver of tuition and fees for older persons auditing certain college classes [HB-4172]
[Education ]
[Senior Citizens ]
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 2024 Regular Session
To prohibit public university names for gender affirming care [HB-4357]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Health ]
The purpose of this bill is to restrict public universities or university associated healthcare facilities from performing gender reassignment surgeries or gender affirming care upon minors.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Creating the Economic Development Tuition Waiver [HB-4271]
[Economic Development ]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
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.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Prohibit requiring Covid-19 vaccine or booster shot to attend in person classes at colleges and universities [HB-4439]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
The purpose of this bill is to prohibit colleges and universities in West Virginia from requiring the COVID-19 vaccine or associated booster shot as a prerequisite for attending in-person class.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
To provide all National Merit Scholars free tuition to any West Virginia higher education institution in order to keep these scholars in state [HB-4500]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia National Merit Scholarship Program. The bill sets forth definitions; defines powers and duties of the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission; establishes requirements; authorizes rulemaking; and creates a special revenue fund.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Relating to nondiscrimination at institutions of higher education [HB-4387]
[Education ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
The purpose of this bill is to prevent discrimination at institutions of higher education at West Virginia post-secondary institutions.
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West Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Relating to Social Media privacy and educational institutions [HB-4572]
[Data Privacy ]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
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.