Education

WV - Representative Joe Ellington (R)

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Chair

WV - Representative Joshua Higginbotham (R)

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Vice-chair

WV - Representative Sean Hornbuckle (D)

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Minority Chair

WV - Representative Cody Thompson (D)

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Minority Vice-chair

WV - Representative Jordan Bridges (R)

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Member

WV - Representative Wayne Clark (R)

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Member

WV - Representative John Doyle (D)

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Member

WV - Representative Ed Evans (D)

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WV - Representative Ric Griffith (D)

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WV - Representative Danny Hamrick (R)

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WV - Representative Caleb Hanna (R)

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WV - Representative Chuck Horst (R)

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WV - Representative D. Rolland Jennings (R)

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Member

WV - Representative John R. Kelly (R)

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WV - Representative Kayla Kessinger (R)

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WV - Representative Laura Kimble (R)

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WV - Representative Todd Longanacre (R)

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WV - Representative Carl Martin (R)

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WV - Representative Margitta Mazzocchi (R)

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WV - Representative Doug Smith (R)

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WV - Representative Joe Statler (R)

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WV - Representative Christopher W. Toney (R)

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WV - Representative Heather Tully (R)

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WV - Representative Danielle Walker (D)

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WV - Representative Johnnie Wamsley (R)

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WV - SB15 Relating generally to in-field master’s degree

WV - HB2001 Relating generally to creating the West Virginia Jumpstart Savings Program

WV - HB2012 Relating to public charter schools

WV - HB2013 Relating to the Hope Scholarship Program

WV - HB2033 Establishing matrix necessary for an institution of higher education to become exempt from the Higher Education Policy Commission

WV - HB2039 Expunging records of unsubstantiated complaints made by the Department of Health and Human Resources against teachers

WV - HB2040 Adopting and implementing a “Heat and Humidity Practice Policy” for all interscholastic athletic events

WV - HB2057 Establishing the Summer Feeding for All initiative

WV - HB2061 Katherine Johnson College Award Program

WV - HB2066 Providing school days for registering eligible students to vote and to provide transportation to voting places

WV - HB2067 Relating to designation of social workers in the Department of Health and Human Services

WV - HB2070 Relating to mandatory drug testing for state legislators and teachers

WV - HB2071 Eliminating the requirement that schools be closed on election days

WV - HB2079 Providing equitable distribution to county boards of education of reimbursement costs of special needs students

WV - HB2080 “Bank Time” used in reaching 180 instructional requirement

WV - HB2084 Amend section providing for waiver of tuition and fees for older persons auditing certain college classes.

WV - HB2089 Defining a work day for school service personnel and removing a provision relating to employment of licensed practical nurses

WV - HB2092 Requiring each high school student to complete a full credit course of study in personal finance

WV - HB2097 Relating to calculating net enrollment for home-school students enrolled in one virtual school course in the public school system

WV - HB2109 Relating to vocational and technical education programs

WV - HB2110 Relating to senior citizens attending college classes at state institutions without receiving college credit

WV - HB2118 Providing school days to register and transport eligible students to vote

WV - HB2141 Relating to participation in school sports

WV - HB2143 Declaring a shortage of qualified bus operators and allowing retired bus operators to accept employment

WV - HB2144 Modifying the definitions and pay grades of certain school cafeteria personnel

WV - HB2145 Relating to student aide class titles

WV - HB2152 Requiring test in civics to graduate high school or obtain GED

WV - HB2155 Creating three separate job titles for school bus operators

WV - HB2157 Forbidding displays relating to sexuality in public school facilities and forbidding the teaching of sexuality in public schools

WV - HB2161 Relating to the removal of standardized testing in public schools

WV - HB2206 Discontinuing the use of common core standards and assessments in the state

WV - HB2210 Exempting personal income earned by individuals working as teachers at primary and secondary schools from personal income tax

WV - HB2214 Home Instruction Tax Relief Act

WV - HB2233 Coordinating a plan to provide the first two years of post-secondary education for free

WV - HB2243 West Virginia Saving Money and Reducing Time Prize Program

WV - HB2245 Relating to the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission

WV - HB2267 Establishing an optional bus operator in residence program for school districts

WV - HB2268 Changing the recommended guidelines for full-day and half-day cooks to the minimum ratio of one cook for every 110 meals

WV - HB2271 Requiring compulsory immunization of public school children

WV - HB2279 Establishing a higher education scholarship program for foster children

WV - HB2304 Changing the school aid formula allowances for instructional technology and for AP and dual credit courses

WV - HB2308 Creating the Business PROMISE+ Scholarship

WV - HB2314 Relating to teacher salary enhancement

WV - HB2315 Relating to PROMISE Scholarship Program requirements

WV - HB2320 Relating to mandatory drug testing of all classes of employees in K through 12 schools

WV - HB2321 Education Savings Account Act

WV - HB2336 Establishing the Katherine Johnson Academy

WV - HB2341 Reducing federal adjusted gross income for interest paid on student loans

WV - HB2345 Requiring each county school board to employ at least one full time school nurse

WV - HB2357 Requiring all schools to instruct students on the Holocaust and other genocides

WV - HB2362 Implementing trauma-informed practices in schools

WV - HB2364 Permit teachers in K-12 schools be authorized to carry concealed firearms as a designated school protection officer

WV - HB2367 Creating the Homeschool Credential Recognition Act

WV - HB2381 Authorizing the suspension or dismissal of school personnel who retaliate against a student or parent who has made a complaint

WV - HB2484 Relating to relocation or closure of state higher education institutions

WV - HB2486 Qualifying not-for-profit private baccalaureate institutions for the Advanced Career Education Programs and the WV Invests Grant Program

WV - HB2487 Creating a Campus Mentors pilot program

WV - HB2501 Suspend School Aid Funding Formula implementation until budget year 2024

WV - HB2506 Establish a max ratio of the number employees of the Dept of Education to the number of students

WV - HB2529 Prohibiting West Virginia institutions of higher education from discriminating against graduates of private, nonpublic or home schools by requiring them to submit to alternative testing

WV - HB2541 Requiring seat belts on every new school bus

WV - HB2543 Relating to calculation of the school aid formula based on net enrollment

WV - HB2546 Relating to education to children and adults housed in correctional facilities and regional jails

WV - HB2547 Establishing the “Stay in State” tax credit

WV - HB2555 Relating to required courses of instruction

WV - HB2564 Requiring free feminine hygiene products in grades 6 through 12

WV - HB2576 Creating the Virtual Public Schools Act

WV - HB2577 Create the Statewide Online Education Act

WV - HB2583 Authorizing student athletes to be compensated for use of their name, image or likeness

WV - HB2584 Prohibiting the home schooling of children in certain circumstances

WV - HB2586 Expanding the amount of promise scholarship funds awarded to persons majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics

WV - HB2604 Expand 529 savings plans to include vocational and trade schools

WV - HB2622 College Graduate Tax Credit

WV - HB2623 Providing a tax credit to encourage new teachers to remain in the state

WV - HB2624 Redirecting a percentage of any surplus to state institutions of higher education to restore their state allocation funding levels

WV - HB2637 West Virginia Residential Incentive Tax Credit Act

WV - HB2638 Granting full time employees of county boards of education three months of paid leave following the birth of a child

WV - HB2641 The Young Professional Tax Credits

WV - HB2652 Modifying the school calendar

WV - HB2657 Relating to the Antihazing Law

WV - HB2659 Granting jurisdiction to supervise youth sport league events to county boards of education and the Secondary School Activities Commission

WV - HB2676 Relating to participation in athletic events exclusively for males and females

WV - HB2687 To prohibit minors from dropping out of high school unless they are emancipated

WV - HB2690 To provide that out of school suspensions be considered “excused” absences

WV - HB2702 To require all public high school students to complete and submit a free application for federal student aid (FAFSA) prior to graduation

WV - HB2704 Creating the “Civic Minded Mountaineer Scholarship.”

WV - HB2712 Modifying the school calendar to begin not earlier than September 1 and end no later than June 7

WV - HB2723 Relating to providing taxpayers a deduction for interest paid on qualified education loans to the extent such amount is not allowable as a deduction when arriving at a taxpayer’s federal adjusted gross income

WV - HB2728 Require all vaccinations for school attendance be included in the West Virginia code

WV - HB2734 Require all athletes to perform in sport of the sex they were born

WV - HB2746 Establishing the behavioral health workforce education initiative at the Higher Education Policy Commission

WV - HB2748 Modifying the school calendar to begin not earlier than September 1 and end no later than June 1

WV - HB2753 Provide programs to educate senior citizens

WV - HB2755 Requiring the State Board of Education to provide for the routine education of all professional educators

WV - HB2771 Creating the Economic Development Tuition Waiver

WV - HB2778 Create the Education Tax Credit

WV - HB2785 Relating to public school enrollment for students from out of state

WV - HB2805 Making Pierpont Community and Technical College a division of Fairmont State University known as the Pierpont College of Community and Technical Education

WV - HB2806 To allow parents to retain their child without losing a year of sports eligibility

WV - HB2815 Requiring air conditioning on all school buses

WV - HB2824 Relating to public school education assessment of students for dyslexia and dyscalculia

WV - HB2832 Protecting political ideas and speech in the hiring process at schools and universities

WV - HB2852 Relating to distribution of the allowance for increased enrollment

WV - HB2870 Requiring county boards of education to make vocational classes available to private school students of the appropriate grades as space is available.

WV - HB2886 Replacing minimum minutes of instructional time required per day with a flexible requirement based upon the completion of classroom or other equivalent work

WV - HB2917 Require anyone participating in high school or middle school sports to play per their biological birth gender

WV - HB2930 Require the School Improvement Council appoint two members to a Selection Committee

WV - HB2937 Requiring a vote on school closure or consolidation in certain circumstances

WV - HB2939 Clarify “out-of-school” time programs.

WV - HB2949 Providing supplemental education through learning pods