Education

WV - Representative Joe Ellington (R)

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Chair

WV - Representative Joe Statler (R)

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Vice-chair

WV - Representative Christopher W. Toney (R)

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Vice-chair

WV - Representative Mike Pushkin (D)

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Minority Chair

WV - Representative Ric Griffith (D)

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Minority Vice-chair

WV - Representative Geno Chiarelli (R)

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Member

WV - Representative Wayne Clark (R)

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Member

WV - Representative Henry Dillon (R)

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Member

WV - Representative Lori Dittman (R)

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WV - Representative Dana Ferrell (R)

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WV - Representative Dave Foggin (R)

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WV - Representative Anitra Hamilton (D)

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WV - Representative Michael Hornby (R)

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Member

WV - Representative D. Rolland Jennings (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 Patrick Lucas (R)

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WV - Representative Margitta Mazzocchi (R)

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WV - Representative David Elliott Pritt (R)

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WV - Representative Bill Ridenour (R)

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WV - Representative Mark A. Ross (R)

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WV - Representative Doug Smith (R)

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WV - Representative Darren Thorne (R)

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WV - Representative Heather Tully (R)

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WV - Representative Jimmy Willis (R)

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WV - HB5442 Free to Speak Act

WV - HB5514 Enahancing training requirements for county boards of education members.

WV - HB5517 To require a statewide public school calendar to begin no earlier that September 1 and end no later than May 31

WV - HB5175 Eliminate funding for the Center for Nursing and transfer its duties and authorities to the Higher Education Policy Commission.

WV - HB4012 Changing the recommended guidelines for full-day and half-day cooks to the minimum ratio of one cook for every 110 meals

WV - HB4200 Relating to pay for Board of Education members

WV - HB4182 Relating to calculating max number of students at alternative and year-round schools

WV - HB4186 Requiring high school students to pass a test on the US Constitution to graduate from high school

WV - HB4232 To make the HOPE Scholarship applicable to all children

WV - HB4172 Amend section providing for waiver of tuition and fees for older persons auditing certain college classes

WV - HB4202 Raising salaries for school service personnel

WV - HB4248 Establishing a pilot program to develop school-based mental and behavioral health services

WV - HB4171 Relating to the special community development school pilot program

WV - HB4241 To establish cultural competency training for teachers obtaining or renewing a teaching license in West Virginia

WV - HB4204 Relating to service employees with National Association for Pupil Transportation Certifications

WV - HB4262 Creating three separate job titles for school bus operators

WV - HB4242 Establish the Commission on American History Enrichment

WV - HB4220 Providing that microschool tuition and fees are qualifying expenses for Hope Scholarship accounts

WV - HB4263 Modifying the definitions and pay grades of certain school cafeteria personnel

WV - HB4271 Creating the Economic Development Tuition Waiver

WV - HB4303 To allow public high schools to have full time athletic trainers

WV - HB4243 Mountaineer Games Sports League

WV - HB4305 Relating to granting in-state resident status to economic development participants

WV - HB4282 To allow parents to retain their child for an extra year of school without losing a year of sports eligibility

WV - HB4290 To create the American Campuses Act

WV - HB4343 Remove homeschool testing and portfolio requirements

WV - HB4349 Establishing the Anti-Stereotyping Act

WV - HB4308 Relating to addressing School Discipline in Public Schools

WV - HB4316 To create an initiative to provide minorities and males with an incentive to join the public education field

WV - HB4365 Exempting personal income earned by individuals working as teachers at primary and secondary schools from personal income tax

WV - HB4299 Permit teachers in K-12 schools be authorized to carry concealed firearms as a designated school protection officer

WV - HB4345 State may not participate in or join the national school board association

WV - HB4322 Amending Hope Scholarship eligibility

WV - HB4367 Discontinuing the use of common core standards and assessments in the state

WV - HB4375 Provide programs to educate senior citizens

WV - HB4338 To allow for the construction of safe entry ways to all public schools in West Virginia.

WV - HB4369 Relating to teacher salary enhancement

WV - HB4416 Heart Health Equity Inclusion

WV - HB4346 To require a moment of silence at the beginning of school each day in the state

WV - HB4414 To strengthen anti-hazing laws and policies for Pre-K to Grade 12

WV - HB4331 To allow money paid to state employees to go to their estate if they pass away before their retirement date

WV - HB4421 Prohibit drag shows from being performed in front of minors and to prohibit people from dressing in drag when reading aloud during story time in schools.

WV - HB4417 To recognize school social workers as having the same status and funding as school counselors

WV - HB4446 Providing school days to register and transport students to vote

WV - HB4412 Requiring each county school board to employ at least one full time school nurse

WV - HB4453 Remove standardized testing in public and private schools

WV - HB4387 Relating to nondiscrimination at institutions of higher education

WV - HB4455 To require cameras in every classroom and room where children are present

WV - HB4480 To provide debt incentives for STEM teachers

WV - HB4488 Provide for statewide participation in the federal Community Eligibility Provision for its duration

WV - HB4457 Remove assessments for homeschoolers

WV - HB4471 Modifying the school calendar

WV - HB4419 Relating to classroom teachers and special education classroom teachers individualized education program requirements

WV - HB4493 Exempting school buses with students on board from paying turnpike tolls

WV - HB4495 Relating to WV Secondary School Activities

WV - HB4510 Student Rescue Act

WV - HB4468 Establishing the Anti-Stereotyping Act

WV - HB4509 Relating to designation of social workers in the Department of Health and Human Services

WV - HB4513 Granting full time employees of county boards of education three months of paid leave following the birth of a child

WV - HB4542 Creating a homeless education coordinator for county schools

WV - HB4500 To provide all National Merit Scholars free tuition to any West Virginia higher education institution in order to keep these scholars in state

WV - HB4490 Provide for statewide participation in the federal Community Eligibility Provision for its duration

WV - HB4491 Prohibiting the home schooling of children in certain circumstances

WV - HB4553 Relating to teacher duty-free lunch and daily planning periods

WV - HB4557 Providing for contracted employment of substitute teachers for 180 instructional days

WV - HB4572 Relating to Social Media privacy and educational institutions

WV - HB4579 To prohibit punishment for teachers who refuse to use pronouns inconsistent with a child’s sex

WV - HB4586 Bill to fund armed veterans at our schools.

WV - SB143 Creating WV Guardian Program

WV - SB146 Creating adult education taskforce

WV - SB172 Revising requirements of local school improvement councils

WV - SB162 Establishing Summer Feeding for All Program

WV - HB4693 Expanding the amount of promise scholarship funds awarded to persons majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics

WV - HB4709 Relating to vocational and technical education programs

WV - HB4701 Establishing the “Stay in State” tax credit

WV - HB4713 Requiring Director of transportation have 2 years experience for bus operator

WV - HB4733 To allow classroom aides with 10 or more years of service and good evaluations to bid on teaching positions

WV - HB4945 Relating generally to the Hope Scholarship Program

WV - HB4948 Removing fees teachers have to pay in order to obtain any teaching license, certification, or additional continuing education credit hours (reporting fee) to the state Board of Education

WV - HB4946 Add as required material in public schools the teaching of the full Constitution of the United States, The Federalist Papers and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letters from Birmingham Jail

WV - HB5029 To create a tuition reimbursement program for Corrections employees.

WV - HB5050 Relating to authorizing legislative rules regarding higher education.

WV - HB5046 Removal of Mandatory Homeschool Reporting

WV - HB5038 Relating to research and economic development agreements for state institutions of higher education

WV - HB5056 Relating to substitute service personnel positions

WV - HB5040 Fast Track for Agriculture Education Endorsement

WV - HB5011 Relating generally to transfer of high school athletes.

WV - HB5152 To permit students in Christian schools at the elementary and middle school level to participate in county level sport tournaments

WV - HB5262 Relating generally to teacher’s bill of rights

WV - HB5277 Require adoption awareness material be made available in high school counseling offices

WV - HB5428 Exempt WV public school buses transporting students from tolls on WV Turnpike

WV - HB5435 Establishing the registered apprenticeship to associate of applied science program to be administered by the Council for Community and Technical College Education

WV - HB5425 Granting a waiver to fill certain professional educator positions of employments when no applicants have six or more years of experience

WV - HB5431 Permitting county boards of education to send parents of students who are chronically disruptive the pro-rated amount of their education and to remove them from the school system for a year to continue their education

WV - HB5540 Relating to fentanyl prevention and awareness Education (Laken’s Law)

WV - HB5529 Relating to foster care support services

WV - HB5553 To provide and change graduation requirements and change duties relating to academic content standards

WV - SB568 Creating multi-tiered system for school absenteeism

WV - SB859 Limiting requirements for issuance of professional teaching certificate

WV - SB842 Modifying training requirements for county boards of education members

WV - SB861 Increasing support and professional development for educators

WV - HB5436 To allow elected members of county Boards of Education to be short-term substitute teachers

WV - HB5513 To create the Great Expectations Pilot Program

WV - HB5484 Relating to age appropriate instruction in health education

WV - SB466 Requiring State Board of Education develop Safety While Accessing Technology education program

WV - HB4637 To establish a grant program for colleges that take steps to establish themselves as Student Basic Needs campuses

WV - HB4639 Exempting county school buses from paying the toll fees

WV - HB4608 Relating to mandatory drug testing of all classes of employees in K through 12 schools

WV - HB4629 Hunger-Free Campus Act

WV - HB4604 Creating the Virtual Public Schools Act

WV - HB4663 To implement trauma-informed practices in schools

WV - HB4670 To include electric-powered school busses in the county foundation allowance

WV - HB4650 Clarifying and updating school bus rules and the types of vehicles covered

WV - HB4649 Relating to education to children and adults housed in correctional facilities and regional jails

WV - HB4767 Relating to WV teaching salaries

WV - HB4792 To require principals to have additional training in certain subjects.

WV - HB4776 Relating to adding elementary schools into school disciplinary measures

WV - HB4763 Establishing the behavioral health workforce education initiative at the Higher Education Policy Commission

WV - HB4774 To repeal the provision allowing for students to transfer from one school to another without losing eligibility.

WV - HB4773 To permit students in eighth and ninth grade to attend summer school in order to raise their grades and establish academic eligibility to play sports in the fall.

WV - HB4777 Allow staff members in public schools to eat lunch for free if there is food left over after every student has been fed

WV - HB4768 Relating to increasing the number of out-of-state medical students receiving in-state tuition rates who agree to practice for a specific time within West Virginia.

WV - HB4769 Clarifying appropriate and inappropriate duties for school counselors while also providing the definition of a school counselor.

WV - HB4820 To ensure free parking and school supplies for children in public schools.

WV - HB4819 To require higher education institutions in West Virginia to accept the CLT as an ACT or SAT equivalent.

WV - HB4821 Requiring certain standards for virtual students in West Virginia.

WV - HB4810 Create the Education Tax Credit

WV - HB4814 Relating to extending the reporting and sunset dates of the State Advisory Council on Postsecondary Attainment Goals

WV - HB4806 Require bathroom use in schools based upon biological sex

WV - HB5518 To adjust the School Aid Formula’s Transportation calculations from its current standard of student enrollment to school bus mileage traveled daily

WV - HB4958 To create the American Campuses Act

WV - HB4990 To allow for the WVSSAC to pull coaching certificates of coaches who are found guilty of illegal recruiting

WV - HB4988 To ensure that classroom sizes are equal without losing a teachers aide

WV - HB4981 Gun carry allowed on college campuses

WV - HB4955 Relating to the nonpartisan election of county superintendents of schools

WV - HB4986 Relating to computer science and cybersecurity instruction for adult learners

WV - HB4960 To establish career exploration courses

WV - HB4969 To allow schools to withhold a diploma from students who cause at least $1,000 in damage due to destruction of property or defacement

WV - HB4951 To facilitate the interstate practice of School Psychology in educational or school settings

WV - HB4959 To exclude certain students from drop out rate data

WV - HB5189 Provide tax credit for homeschool students

WV - HB5095 Require county boards of education to train at least one professional staff member at each school in a grant writing procedures.

WV - HB5111 Create the Statewide Online Education Act

WV - HB5179 Relating to the creation of “Jaycie’s Law.”

WV - HB5180 Removing requirements to submit certain evidence on behalf of home schooled children

WV - HB5139 Allow teachers to bank personal and sick days.

WV - HB5158 Relating to making technical corrections to the special education code

WV - HB5153 Relating to revising, updating and streamlining the requirements governing the West Virginia Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarship.

WV - HB5124 The purpose of this bill is to remove the restrictions of taxpayers to access online curriculum, and allow for taxpayers to inspect additional instructional material adopted by the county board pursuant to including books in the classroom.

WV - HB5200 Requiring that school counselors serving students in preschool through the 12th grade participate in the School Counselors Conference at least once every two years

WV - HB5195 Create a half day position for all school service personnel

WV - HB5199 Provide for exemption from required physical education

WV - HB5196 To require all West Virginia high school students to pass a Civics examination and the United States Naturalization Examination

WV - HB5346 To clean up statutory provisions regarding the Hope Scholarship program to better reflect the intent and operation of the program

WV - HB5405 Providing additional professional development and support to West Virginia educators through teacher and leader induction and professional growth.

WV - SB487 Requiring periodic review of professional development for teachers and education staff

WV - SB529 Including Salem University in PROMISE Scholarship program

WV - SB507 Relating to repeal of WV EDGE

WV - HB5661 To mandate county boards of education to provide feminine hygiene products in all public elementary, middle, and high schools for female students

WV - HB5687 To repurpose retired military service dogs for use in West Virginia public schools.

WV - HB5650 Allow suspended school personnel to enter school property functions open to the public

WV - HB5671 Medical Redshirt Bill for High School Students

WV - HB5673 Consolidate county school boards

WV - HB5666 The Forming Open and Robust University Minds (FORUM) Act

WV - HB5664 To automatically start a Smart 529 account for every newborn in West Virginia.

WV - HB5653 To repeal the provision allowing for students to transfer from one school to another without losing eligibility

WV - HB5658 To require all projects funded by the school building authority to have an assessment of school safety when a new project is created.

WV - SB614 Relating to elementary behavior intervention and safety

WV - SB806 Removing certain required reports to Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability

WV - SB503 Protecting belief-based student organizations from certain types of discrimination

WV - HB4829 Relating employment of service personnel and removing the requirement for a high school diploma or general education development certificate.

WV - HB4833 Require that any student in the 11th or 12th grade, who has been placed in a “free/elective/assistant” period, be informed of online college course opportunities available for them

WV - HB4832 Relating to state superintendent’s reports regarding the finances of school districts

WV - HB4830 To address the professional development of teachers.

WV - HB4846 Relating to “In God We Trust” signs donated in schools

WV - HB4847 To provide school access for Patriotic Youth Groups

WV - HB4839 Relating to online instructors contracted by the WVDE or counties.

WV - HB4863 Patriotic Access to Students in Schools Act

WV - HB4862 Introduction of a “School Safety Program”

WV - HB4860 Providing that a general education teacher may not be responsible for accommodation logs

WV - HB4843 Prohibit the use of school resources in election advocacy efforts and prohibit school employees from political activity during their work hours or on behalf of the school administration

WV - HB4851 To allow for public and private schools in West Virginia to employ security personnel.

WV - HB4882 Extending in-state tuition rates to all members and veterans of the National Guard, reserves, and armed forces as well as their spouses and dependents

WV - HB4838 Require county boards of education to provide long-term substitute teachers, upon hiring, with certain information

WV - HB4921 Relating generally to tuition for children of out of state alumni of WV state universities.

WV - HB4919 Relating to the Promise Scholarship

WV - HB4903 Relating to critical vacancies in public education

WV - HB4902 To provide a raise for special education aides, as well as a raise for self-contained special education teachers.

WV - HB4899 WV Belief-Based Campus Student Organization Bill

WV - HB4896 Relating to eligibility requirements for student transfers to a public school for WVSSAC sanctioned sports

WV - HB4893 To increase the minimum starting salary for a teacher to $50,000

WV - SB152 Displaying official US motto in public schools

WV - HB5059 Defining a work day for school service personnel and removing a provision relating to employment of licensed practical nurses

WV - HB5075 Relating to human growth and development curriculum

WV - HB5088 To require all state employees, county employees, and employees of county school boards to be subject to random drug testing

WV - HB5078 To include Salem University in programs wherein the Promise Scholarship is accepted

WV - HB5081 Relating to any school employee before being hired must pass a CPS background check

WV - HB5227 Requiring age-appropriate instruction on the Holocaust

WV - HB5252 Requiring certain minimum experience for the director or coordinator of services class title involving school transportation.

WV - HB5330 Require DHHR-CPS to notify the county school superintendent & local BOE president (of the public school system where the child attends) of pending CPS investigations.

WV - HB5325 Relating to the Pledge of Allegiance in schools

WV - HB5336 To require parental notification of certain immunization-related items by public school districts any time school-related immunization notifications or letters are sent to parents

WV - HB5292 Relating to Extracurricular Inclusion and Learning Pod Freedom

WV - HB5329 Limiting the use of state funding under the Hope Scholarship Program for out-of-state private schools and providers

WV - HB5300 Moving the school system from a 5 day work week into a 4 day work week.

WV - HB5302 Relating to the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools

WV - HB5289 To allow for the implementation of Plasma Games in West Virginia public schools.

WV - HB5290 To create “Holocaust Education Week”

WV - SB280 Allowing teachers in public schools to discuss scientific theories

WV - HB5021 Relating to cardiac response plans

WV - SB189 Providing for substantial deference to state school superintendent's interpretations of school laws

WV - HB5527 To allow those with a concealed carry license to carry a concealed handgun in public school property and buildings.

WV - HB5563 Adding a proviso that any county will open attendance zones and an existing transportaion Arrangement shall not be permitted to close the open attendance zone reestablish closed boarders or modify existing transportation routes or arrangements for any current or future students who chooose to utilize these options

WV - HB5598 Requiring a shcool administrator and local Board of Education to assess whether a student is in the foster care system or undre the supervision of Child Protective Services prior to being disiplined for a level 3 or 4 behavior policy violation

WV - HB5597 Relating to school bus driver charged with DUI

WV - HB5607 Relating to public charter school’s application for funding.

WV - HB5586 Requiring publicly funded medical schools to teach certain life-saving methods

WV - HB5588 Transfer of Funds from Department of Economic Development to School Building Authority

WV - HB5625 Relating to updating names of institutions of higher education and nondiscrimination in leadership positions

WV - HB5162 Establish a program to promote creation and expansion of registered apprenticeship programs

WV - SB292 Hunger-Free Campus Act

WV - SB727 Revising process for county boards of education to hire support staff

WV - SB813 Allowing students to participate in non-school competitive activities