Education (k12)
West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Establishing minimum student enrollment for school aid formula [HB-3086]
The purpose of this bill is to update the school aid formula by establishing a minimum net enrollment of 1,200 students for each county.
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Expanding cardiac arrest provisions to be applicable to elementary schools [SB-652]
The purpose of this bill is to expand provisions pertaining to cardiac arrest to be applicable to elementary schools; and impose certain cardiac arrest related requirements on coaches and any other personnel supervising a youth sports league team that plays or practices on school grounds.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Increasing non-traditional instruction days for WV teachers [SB-646]
The purpose of this bill is to clarify the amount of non-traditional instruction days for teachers.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Market pay for Teachers [HB-3069]
The purpose of this bill is to enhance pay for teachers; provide for market pay enhancement for teacher salaries in certain circumstances; provide for certification to the State Auditor; set out distribution of funds; require reporting; make funds subject to personal income tax; providing funds are in excess of minimum salary schedule; make enhancement not subject to state grievance process; and provide for rulemaking.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Creating Parents' Bill of Rights [SB-659]
The purpose of this bill is to codify a Parents' Bill of Rights.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Consolidate county school boards [HB-3046]
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, 2028; require State Board of Education to study and provide recommendation regarding school district unification by October 31, 2025; create School District Unification Committee to assist State Board of Education; and authorize rulemaking to aid in the transition process.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
To display the Ten Commandments in public schools [HB-3041]
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.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
To create an education internet-based reporting portal for Homeschool parents and Boards of Education. [HB-3029]
The purpose of this bill is to require the Board of Education to design, test, and deploy an internet-based reporting portal known as the Home School Portal.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Community School Parent Choice Act [HB-3049]
The purpose of this bill relates to the creation of the Community School Parents' Choice Act. The bill ensures that parents of students in schools under consideration for closure and consolidation shall be provided with a means to prevent closure or consolidation. Finally, the bill provides for a 10 year sunset date.
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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
Requiring each county school board to employ at least one full time school nurse [HB-3023]
The purpose of this bill is to require county boards to employ at least one full time nurse for each public school.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Support for neglected Schools [HB-2997]
The purpose of this bill is to provide for the creation of the "Support for Neglected Schools Act."
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Regarding venue for legal actions against the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission [HB-2973]
The purpose of this bill is to clarify where legal actions involving the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission shall be filed.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating to parents' Bill of Rights [SB-596]
The purpose of this bill is to codify the Parents Bill of Rights.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Expand the grade level for Laken’s Law [HB-2956]
The purpose of this bill is to expand "Laken's Law" or the instruction about fentanyl, heroin, and opioids awareness, prevention to grades 3-12.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Remote Schools Support Act [HB-2939]
The purpose of this bill is to provide for the creation of the Remote Schools Support Act.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Limiting the use of state funding under the Hope Scholarship Program for out-of-state private schools and providers [HB-2955]
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.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
To create the American Campuses Act [HB-2875]
The purpose of this bill is to establish the American Campuses Act. The bill prohibits foreign missions of Foreign Countries of Risk to state higher education institutions; prohibits involvement with Foreign Government-Sponsored Talent Recruitment Program of a Foreign Country of Risk; and sets forth reporting requirements for state institutions of higher education.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
To determine the salaries of all county Superintendent of School based on population. [HB-2841]
The purpose of this bill is to establish maximum salaries of county school superintendents for each of the 55 counties, based on student population of each county.
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
To set the salary of the State Superintendent of Schools [HB-2933]
The purpose of this bill is to base the annual salary of the state superintendent of schools on the average of the salaries of similar positions in the five states that border West Virginia; and to reassess the salary every five years.