Education (k12)
West Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Requiring school counselors in public schools to spend 100 percent of their time on comprehensive school counseling programs [HB-2391]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
The purpose of this bill is to require school counselors in public schools to spend 100 percent of their time on comprehensive school counseling programs. The bill also requires county boards to ensure that school counselors are not assigned administrative or clerical duties as part of their regular work assignment or while students are present.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Dean
Filed For Introduction on 01/14/2019
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School Consolidation Task Force [HB-2386]
[Education ]
School Consolidation Task Force
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Fleischauer
Filed For Introduction on 01/14/2019
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West Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Creating a pilot program for expansion of school-based mental health and school-based diversion [HB-2383]
[Mental Health ]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Healthcare ]
[Criminal Justice ]
The purpose of this bill is to create a pilot program to establish school-based mental and behavioral health services for students and families as an alternative to the standard disciplinary measures.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chad Lovejoy
Filed For Introduction on 01/14/2019
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West Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Relating generally to grounds for revocation of a teaching certificate [HB-2378]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
The purpose of this bill is to revoke teaching certificate of teacher’s conviction of any offense that requires the teacher to register as a sex offender.
Sponsored by: Rep. Paul Espinosa
Chapter 237, Acts, Regular Session, 2019 on 04/11/2019
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West Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Relating to education to children and adults housed in correctional facilities and regional jails [HB-2368]
[Education ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Funding ]
The purpose of this bill is to remove language requiring specific appropriations in order for the State Board of Education, State Department of Education and the State Superintendent of Schools to provide education to children and adults housed in correctional facilities and regional jails.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Pushkin
Filed For Introduction on 01/14/2019
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West Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Creating a state program allowing high school students advance to getting a college degree or technical training while in high school [HB-2367]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Community Development ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Children and Youth ]
The purpose of this bill is to create a new state program that allows high school students to enter into early specialized training to prepare them for careers while attending high school. The bill allows the State Board of Education to create agreements with colleges and community and technical schools to allow high school students to complete a one-year or two-year program while in high school. The bill gives discretion to the state board on implementing and funding this program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tim Miley
Filed For Introduction on 01/14/2019
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West Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Relating to the Upper Kanawha Valley Resiliency and Revitalization Program [HB-2363]
[Community Development ]
[Economic Development ]
The purpose of this bill is to enhance and extend the Upper Kanawha Valley Resiliency and Revitalization Program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Andrew Robinson
Vetoed By Governor 3/27/19 on 03/27/2019
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West Virginia 2019 Regular Session
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Thompson
Filed For Introduction on 01/11/2019
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West Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Developing a resource for use by parents to monitor and track deaf and hard-of-hearing children’s receptive and expressive language [HB-2345]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
[Education ]
[Healthcare ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Health ]
The purpose of this bill is to develop a resource which families can use to monitor and track deaf and hard-of-hearing children’s early language acquisition and expression, and developmental stages toward English literacy.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Kelly
Filed For Introduction on 01/11/2019
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West Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Relating to public school education in dating violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence prevention [HB-2327]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Health ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
This purpose of this bill is to ensure that public schools integrate age-appropriate components of effective and evidence-based programs on the prevention of dating violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence into their existing programs and curricula.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chad Lovejoy
Filed For Introduction on 01/11/2019
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West Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Providing a salary increase for special education teachers [HB-2322]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Budget and Spending ]
The purpose of this bill is to provide a salary increase for special education teachers.
Sponsored by: Rep. Roy Cooper
Filed For Introduction on 01/11/2019
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West Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Developing a resource for use by parents to monitor and track deaf and hard-of-hearing children’s expressive and receptive language acquisition [HB-2205]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
The purpose of this bill is to require the State Department of Education and the Schools for the Deaf and the Blind to jointly select language developmental milestones from existing standardized norms for purposes of developing a resource for use by parents to monitor and track deaf and hard-of-hearing children’s expressive and receptive language acquisition and developmental stages toward English literacy.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Kelly
Filed For Introduction on 01/10/2019
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West Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Establishing a pilot program to develop school-based mental and behavioral health services [HB-2100]
[Education ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
The purpose of this bill is to require the State Department of Education to develop a pilot program to provide mental and behavioral health services as an alternative to suspending students for disruptive behaviors.
Sponsored by: Rep. Andrew Robinson
With Amendment, Do Pass, But First To Education on 02/13/2019
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West Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Relating to seniority rights and school consolidation [HB-2093]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
The purpose of this bill is to permit classroom teachers or school service personnel who at the time of a school merger who are the sole occupants of the same positions that will exist at the new school to maintain that position at the new school. The bill requires the posting of service, professional or administrative positions only when duplicate positions exist.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Dean
Filed For Introduction on 01/09/2019
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West Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Assessing the college- and career-readiness of 11th and 12th grade students [HB-2095]
[Education ]
The purpose of this bill is to eliminate the requirement that a student placed in transitional education programs as a high school senior must re-take a college-and career-readiness examination or similar assessment of readiness if the student has already taken the examination or assessment as a junior.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Dean
To Education on 01/24/2019
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West Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Permitting county boards of education to accumulate instructional days and use them when needed [HB-2022]
[Education ]
[Disaster Relief ]
The purpose of this bill is to permit county boards of education to accrue instructional days during years of good weather, to use in later school years as required to accomplish a full instructional term because of inclement weather or emergencies.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tom Fast
Filed For Introduction on 01/09/2019
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West Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Providing a bonus for teachers willing to teach in certain critical needs areas [HB-2013]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Budget and Spending ]
The purpose of this bill is to encourage additional teachers to teach in critical needs areas of math, science and special education by authorizing bonuses. The bill would increase the state minimum salary of special education teachers and teachers of mathematics and computer science in grades 7 through 12 by $2,000. The teacher must be fully certified with the appropriate programmatic level and specialization recognized on his or her professional license.Â
Sponsored by: Rep. Moore Capito
Filed For Introduction on 01/24/2019
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West Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Creating a new category of Innovation in Education grant program [HB-2009]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
The purpose of this bill is to provide a framework to support a network of not more than 20 schools that are interested in transitioning to an educational system wherein students’ progress when they have mastered the subject matter content, rather when they have received at least the minimum grade at the end of a required period of course time. The bill sets forth and identifies those systems  are generally referred to as mastery-based, proficiency-based or competency-based systems and are intended to both reduce the skill deficits that students
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Sponsored by: Rep. Roy Cooper
Chapter 98, Acts, Regular Session, 2019 on 04/11/2019
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West Virginia 2019 Regular Session
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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Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Dean
Chapter 97, Acts, Regular Session, 2019 on 04/11/2019
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West Virginia 2019 Regular Session
Education Savings Account Act [HB-2002]
[Education ]
[Disabilities ]
[Children and Youth ]
The purpose of this bill is to create an Educational Savings Account Program for students with disabilities and to provide for its administration.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jim Butler
Filed For Introduction on 01/11/2019