Bill Status - 2016 Regular Session
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There are 95 bill(s) regarding Education (K12)
| Bill | Title | Status | Committee | Step | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 318 | Clarifying that home schooled student may not be classified as habitually absent | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/19/16 |
| SB 321 | Providing additional funding for exceptional children with high-cost/high-acuity special needs | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/10/16 |
| SB 373 | Granting more control of regional education service agencies to county boards | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/08/16 |
| SB 378 | Relating to truancy intervention | Rejected | CONF | 03/12/16 | |
| SB 380 | Relating to comprehensive statewide student assessment | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/25/16 |
| SB 382 | Including volunteer workers and student teachers under Board of Risk and Insurance Management coverage | Pending | Senate Banking and Insurance | Committee | 01/25/16 |
| SB 406 | Changing age date of attending school | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/27/16 |
| SB 407 | Increasing high-quality educational opportunities in public school system | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/27/16 |
| SB 452 | Revising school aid formula | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/24/16 |
| SB 458 | Creating Innovation in Education-designated schools | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/02/16 |
| SB 459 | Requiring county board of education to pay tuition to Mountaineer Challenge Academy | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 8, 2016) | ||
| SB 476 | Relating to driving restrictions in school zones | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 9, 2016) | ||
| SB 483 | Marshall County and Wyoming County LSIC waiver | Signed | Effective July 1, 2016 | ||
| SB 488 | Requiring WV Secondary School Activities Commission manage hypertrophic cardiomyopathy | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/22/16 |
| SB 499 | Preventing State Board of Education from implementing common core academic standards | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/03/16 |
| SB 513 | Relating to composition of School Building Authority | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/04/16 |
| SB 611 | Including protocols for responding to after-school injuries or emergencies in school crisis response plans | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/17/16 |
| SB 630 | Ratio of pupils per licensed school psychologist | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/18/16 |
| SB 632 | Requiring county superintendent of schools and county board members meet regarding established goals for public education | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/18/16 |
| SB 636 | Increasing salaries for teachers through fiscal year 2020 | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/19/16 |
| SB 668 | Increasing excise tax on bottled soft drinks, syrups and dry mixtures | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/22/16 |
| SB 669 | Requiring proficiency in civics as condition for high school or GED diploma | Pending | House Education | Committee | 03/02/16 |
| SB 671 | Creating digital learning pilot project | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/22/16 |
| SB 676 | Relating to comprehensive statewide student assessment | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/22/16 |
| SB 681 | Providing teachers' lessons plans be available on Internet to student and parents | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/22/16 |
| HB 4011 | Providing for the authorization and oversight of public charter schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/20/16 |
| HB 4014 | Preventing the State Board of Education from implementing common core academic standards and assessments | Vetoed | Vetoed | ||
| HB 4018 | Establishing incentives for public schools to make their recreational facilities available for public use outside of school hours | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/14/16 |
| HB 4020 | School Consolidation Task Force | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/14/16 |
| HB 4024 | Prohibiting the use of the Smarter Balanced Assessment | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/15/16 |
| HB 4025 | Requiring members of the State Board of Education to be physically present in state board meetings | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/15/16 |
| HB 4026 | Limiting terms of citizen members of the School Building Authority | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/15/16 |
| HB 4027 | Increasing pay to teachers and service personnel | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/15/16 |
| HB 4028 | Relating to school calendar and school instructional days | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/15/16 |
| HB 4036 | Restoring language that gives preference to currently employed certified professional educators when hiring athletic coaches | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/18/16 |
| HB 4039 | Increasing salaries for teachers | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/18/16 |
| HB 4147 | Making the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind eligible to participate in any and all funding administered or distributed by the West Virginia School Building Authority | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/15/16 |
| HB 4167 | Permitting county boards of education to accumulate instructional days and use them when needed | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/20/16 |
| HB 4171 | Relating to the public school calendar | Vetoed | Vetoed | ||
| HB 4175 | Relating generally to home schooling | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (May 23, 2016) | ||
| HB 4194 | Requiring each public high school to offer a course in computer science | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/21/16 |
| HB 4215 | Removing the requirement that a home schooled student must acquire a general equivalency degree (GED) in order to qualify for a PROMISE scholarship | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/21/16 |
| HB 4224 | Requiring school restroom facilities to have privacy walls | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/22/16 |
| HB 4242 | Creating income tax credits against personal income tax for educational expenses incurred by parents for a child | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/22/16 |
| HB 4260 | Providing private educational facilities authority to determine whether, and under what circumstances, to permit deadly weapons on school premises through written policies | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/25/16 |
| HB 4261 | Prohibiting the sale or transfer of student data to vendors and other profit making entities | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2016) | ||
| HB 4269 | Relating to public school finance | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/26/16 |
| HB 4281 | Providing that the statewide summative assessment only be administered in grades three through eight and once at the high school level | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/26/16 |
| HB 4291 | Increasing penalties for teachers who commit sexual offenses against children | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/18/16 |
| HB 4295 | Relating to the School Innovation Zones Act | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 10, 2016) | ||
| HB 4296 | Permitting county boards of education to accumulate instructional days and use them when needed | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/27/16 |
| HB 4298 | Changing the age effective date of children for whom county boards of education must provide kindergarten programs | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/27/16 |
| HB 4301 | Relating to a framework for initiating comprehensive transformation of school leadership | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 9, 2016) | ||
| HB 4303 | Providing a salary increase for special education teachers | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/27/16 |
| HB 4316 | Relating to reimbursement of certification fee for National Board for Professional Teaching Standards certification | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 9, 2016) | ||
| HB 4325 | Requiring promulgation of a rule to provide for payment of tuition by county boards of education to the Mountaineer Challenge Academy | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/04/16 |
| HB 4351 | Transferring the Cedar Lakes Camp and Conference Center from the West Virginia Board of Education to the Department of Agriculture | Signed | Effective July 1, 2016 | ||
| HB 4384 | Permitting students to opt out of taking certain academic assessments | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/03/16 |
| HB 4397 | Exempting certain child care facilities from licensure, certification, approval and registration requirements | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/04/16 |
| HB 4403 | Relating to school calendar | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/04/16 |
| HB 4405 | West Virginia Educational Restoration Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/04/16 |
| HB 4409 | Requiring in-service training programs in the use of the Heimlich maneuver and response to choking emergencies for all school personnel in pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and elementary schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/24/16 |
| HB 4432 | Clarifying procedures for removal of office of any person holding any county, school district or municipal office | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 02/08/16 |
| HB 4445 | Relating to the adoption of instructional educational resources | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/23/16 |
| HB 4446 | Increasing teacher salaries | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/08/16 |
| HB 4447 | Granting a local school improvement council waiver for the purpose of increasing the compulsory school attendance age in Marshall County | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/08/16 |
| HB 4461 | Relating to School Building Authority School Major Improvement Fund eligibility | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 9, 2016) | ||
| HB 4465 | Relating to salary equity among school systems | Pending | 2nd Reading | 03/12/16 | |
| HB 4466 | Relating to public school support | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 03/02/16 |
| HB 4467 | Including financial aid planning and completion of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid in secondary school instruction in personal finance | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/19/16 |
| HB 4469 | Providing a free lunch to all employees in a school building | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/09/16 |
| HB 4482 | Relating to excused absences for personal illness from school | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/10/16 |
| HB 4492 | Establishing a mandatory course of instruction in firearm safety for high school students | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/11/16 |
| HB 4514 | Reducing the number of pupils per school nurses | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/11/16 |
| HB 4522 | Relating to basic state aid to public education | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/12/16 |
| HB 4535 | Extending the length of time for the special Community-Based Pilot Demonstration Project to Improve Outcomes for At-Risk Youth | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/15/16 |
| HB 4549 | Requiring that four members of the State Board of Education be elected on a nonpartisan basis | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/16/16 |
| HB 4566 | Relating to school personnel | Signed | Effective July 1, 2016 | ||
| HB 4572 | Excepting specialized contract instructors from the definition of teacher | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/26/16 |
| HB 4588 | Requiring the West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission adopt certain safety standards for youth lacrosse | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/17/16 |
| HB 4595 | Developing a county plan to use funds designated for the support of isolated schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/17/16 |
| HB 4627 | Creating a digital learning pilot project | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/20/16 |
| HB 4628 | Requiring county boards of education to conduct regular structural inspections of school facilities and structures | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/20/16 |
| HB 4638 | Relating to truancy intervention | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/20/16 |
| HB 4640 | Providing a tax credit for a taxpayer educating a student in a private or home school | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/22/16 |
| HB 4643 | Eliminating requirements that state provide for professional training and development of teachers | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/22/16 |
| HB 4669 | Redirecting certain funds of the West Virginia Department of Education | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/22/16 |
| HB 4670 | Relating to designation of social workers in the Department of Health and Human Services to promote better student school attendance | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/22/16 |
| HB 4686 | Prohibiting the State Board of Education from adopting new Common Core academic content standards | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/23/16 |
| HB 4688 | Relating to basic state aid to public education | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/23/16 |
| HB 4694 | Permitting nonprofessional personnel to be hired as athletic coaches in certain circumstances | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/23/16 |
| HB 4703 | Reclassifying Early Childhood Classroom Assistant Teacher I, II and III positions as Aide V, Aide VI and Aide VII positions | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/23/16 |
| HB 4719 | Allowing employees with an NAPT certification to be eligible for transportation management positions | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/23/16 |
| HB 4722 | Codifying the West Virginia Procedures Manual for the Education of Students with Exceptionalities | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/23/16 |
| HB 4723 | Creating a program of instruction for students in workforce preparedness to be added to the curriculum of courses in secondary schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/23/16 |