Bill Status - 2020 Regular Session
Search Bills by Subject
There are 171 bill(s) regarding Education (K12)
| Bill | Title | Status | Committee | Step | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 19 | Prohibiting State Board of Education from accepting federal education plans without legislative approval | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| SB 22 | Requiring county boards of education to provide free feminine hygiene products in grades six through 12 | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| SB 32 | Allowing vehicles operated by certain county boards of education to use red flashing warning lights | Pending | Senate Transportation and Infrastructure | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| SB 38 | Requiring schools provide elective course on Hebrew Scriptures or Bible | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/27/20 |
| SB 42 | Permitting faith-based electives in classroom drug prevention programs | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 5, 2020) | ||
| SB 45 | Requiring teaching of agricultural science education course | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| SB 71 | Requiring minors in possession of marijuana and their parents to attend classes on danger of marijuana | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| SB 85 | Providing up to $500 credit for teachers against personal income tax for nonreimbursed costs of supplies | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| SB 107 | Requiring satisfactory completion of class in personal finance to graduate high school | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| SB 131 | Creating Tim Tebow Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/12/20 |
| SB 166 | Requiring county boards of education to provide free feminine hygiene products in grades five through 12 to certain students | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/09/20 |
| SB 221 | Relating to disposition of vacated school buildings or other state-owned buildings | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 01/09/20 |
| SB 224 | Requiring State Board of Education to develop instructional program on home maintenance for elderly or disabled | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/09/20 |
| SB 230 | Requiring State Board of Education provide routine education in suicide prevention | Signed | Effective from passage - (March 7, 2020) | ||
| SB 241 | Requiring State Board of Education develop method for student transportation costs as stand-alone consideration | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (May 29, 2020) | ||
| SB 247 | Providing bonus for school service personnel who use less than four days of personal leave | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/10/20 |
| SB 287 | Requiring county boards of education establish program for random drug testing of student drivers and student athletes | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/10/20 |
| SB 295 | Establishing criminal penalties for certain sexual offenses committed by teacher against student | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 01/10/20 |
| SB 296 | Requiring student compete in school-sanctioned event based on athlete's biological gender listed on original birth certificate | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/10/20 |
| SB 297 | Requiring Board of Education create family and consumer sciences course | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/24/20 |
| SB 299 | Requiring Board of Education develop financial literacy course | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/10/20 |
| SB 303 | Enacting Students' Right to Know Act | Signed | Effect January 1, 2021 | ||
| SB 304 | Relating to county board of education financial statements | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 01/10/20 |
| SB 474 | Requiring public schools notify parents when dispensing contraceptives to minors | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/15/20 |
| SB 476 | Requiring WV schools teach cursive writing | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/15/20 |
| SB 515 | Creating Education Savings Account Act | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/16/20 |
| SB 540 | Authorizing boards of education create dashboard to display certain information | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/20/20 |
| SB 541 | Creating position of homeless education coordinator | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/20/20 |
| SB 542 | Prohibiting political activities by members of State Board of Education | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/20/20 |
| SB 557 | Establishing vocational-technical programs in middle schools | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/21/20 |
| SB 565 | Allowing private schools option of requiring vaccinations | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/21/20 |
| SB 588 | Expanding early childhood education programs to three-year-old children | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/22/20 |
| SB 590 | Implementing trauma-informed practices in schools | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/22/20 |
| SB 614 | Changing method of allocating funding from Safe School Funds | Signed | Effective from passage - (March 6, 2020) | ||
| SB 623 | Allowing noncitizen of US be eligible for teaching certificate | Signed | Effective from passage - (February 21, 2020) | ||
| SB 628 | Creating WV Children's Vision Act | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/27/20 |
| SB 637 | Prohibiting home schooling of children in certain circumstances | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/28/20 |
| SB 661 | Replacing minimum minutes of instructional time required per day | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 03/02/20 |
| SB 685 | Requiring WV schools teach cursive writing | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/03/20 |
| SB 691 | Limiting programs adopted by State Board of Education | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 3, 2020) | ||
| SB 698 | Relating to retirees employed as substitute bus drivers | Pending | Senate Pensions | Committee | 02/04/20 |
| SB 702 | Designating specific grade levels in which nutrition and physical fitness programs are taught | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/18/20 |
| SB 723 | Requiring Department of Education develop plan based on analyzed data on school discipline | Signed | Effective from passage - (March 7, 2020) | ||
| SB 726 | Requiring State Board of Education review WV K-12 academic standards | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/07/20 |
| SB 750 | Establishing extended learning opportunities | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 4, 2020) | ||
| SB 775 | Requiring two water bottle filling stations be included in newly built or renovated schools | Rejected | 02/25/20 | ||
| SB 792 | Relating to employment of nurses in public schools | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/14/20 |
| SB 807 | Requiring statewide full-time professional counselor to student ratio of one to every 250 students | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/17/20 |
| SB 809 | Relating to persons ineligible for employment in public schools | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/17/20 |
| SB 814 | Providing pay raises to teachers | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/17/20 |
| SB 824 | Establishing Summer Feeding for All Program | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/17/20 |
| SB 833 | Requiring schools have library and full-time librarian | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/17/20 |
| SB 842 | Requiring Superintendent of Schools establish a Behavior Interventionist Pilot Program in two school districts for five years | Signed | Effective from passage - (March 6, 2020) | ||
| HB 2002 | Education Savings Account Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2013 | Providing a bonus for teachers willing to teach in certain critical needs areas | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2022 | Permitting county boards of education to accumulate instructional days and use them when needed | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2093 | Relating to seniority rights and school consolidation | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2100 | Establishing a pilot program to develop school-based mental and behavioral health services | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2322 | Providing a salary increase for special education teachers | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2327 | Relating to public school education in dating violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence prevention | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2345 | Developing a resource for use by parents to monitor and track deaf and hard-of-hearing children’s receptive and expressive language | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2350 | Permitting public employees the right to collectively bargain | Pending | House Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2367 | Creating a state program allowing high school students advance to getting a college degree or technical training while in high school | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2368 | Relating to education to children and adults housed in correctional facilities and regional jails | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2383 | Creating a pilot program for expansion of school-based mental health and school-based diversion | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2386 | School Consolidation Task Force | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2397 | Requiring county school boards to provide adequate mental health and counseling services | Pending | House Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2425 | Defining a work day for school service personnel and removing a provision relating to employment of licensed practical nurses | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2433 | Modifying the school calendar to begin not earlier than September 1 and end no later than June 7 | Rejected | 01/30/20 | ||
| HB 2448 | Middle School Technical Education Program Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2457 | Educational Equality Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2464 | Requiring free feminine hygiene products in grades 6 through 12 | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/28/20 |
| HB 2549 | Relating to compulsory school attendance | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2551 | Requiring the State Board of Education to develop a method for funding student transportation costs as a stand-alone consideration | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2561 | Expanding the eligibility for service on county school boards | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2593 | Limiting the increase or decrease of state funding to a county board of education | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2604 | Permitting service credit in the Teachers Retirement System to persons with alternative school teaching experience | Pending | House Pensions and Retirement | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2606 | Requiring 30 minutes of unstructured play time daily for students in kindergarten through grade 5 | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2615 | Requiring the state board of education to develop an elective course on Vocational Agriculture | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2620 | Modifying the contact requirements with a student’s guardians upon accrual of unexcused absences | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2630 | Requiring each county school board to employ at least one full time school nurse | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2632 | Tim Tebow Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2710 | Prohibiting manufacturing plants from locating within two air miles of an existing public school | Pending | House Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2713 | Expunging records of unsubstantiated complaints made by the Department of Health and Human Resources against teachers | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2719 | Establishing an optional bus operator in residence program for school districts | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/10/20 |
| HB 2758 | Establishing minimum numbers of school counselors | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2766 | Relating to a student not advancing to the next grade by teacher recommendation | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2775 | Requiring each high school student to complete a full credit course of study in personal finance | Pending | 2nd Reading | 03/04/20 | |
| HB 2794 | Establishing the Summer Feeding for All initiative | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/19/20 |
| HB 2824 | Relating to teacher to pupil ratio in grades first through third | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2842 | Increasing the amount that a faculty senate of a public school may allocate to a classroom teacher or librarian for academic materials | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2847 | Relating to exemptions from mandated immunizations | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2852 | Increasing the expenditure for academic materials, supplies, and equipment | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2859 | Authorizing certain teachers to use alternative teaching programs | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2860 | Relating to mandatory drug testing of all classes of employees in K through 12 schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2870 | Reducing the number of students and schools that a school nurse must serve | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2919 | Establishing an Education Employees Fund | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2938 | Relating to vocational and technical education programs | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2963 | Modifying the school calendar | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 3006 | Providing school day to register and transport students to vote | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 3058 | Granting full time employees of county boards of education three months of paid leave following the birth of a child | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 3114 | Eliminating the requirement that schools be closed on election days | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 3118 | Relating to mandatory drug testing for state legislators and teachers | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 3127 | Relating to the Secondary School Activities Commission and participation by home schooled students | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (May 31, 2020) | ||
| HB 3128 | Changing the recommended guidelines for full-day and half-day cooks to the minimum ratio of one cook for every 110 meals | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 3130 | Creating three separate job titles for school bus operators | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 4036 | Requiring the State Board of Education to develop curriculum content for a semester-long financial literacy course | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/08/20 |
| HB 4069 | West Virginia Student Religious Liberties Act | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 5, 2020) | ||
| HB 4084 | Relating to teacher salary enhancement | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/10/20 |
| HB 4089 | Requiring cursive writing to be taught | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/29/20 |
| HB 4105 | Requiring that public schools have full-time trainers on staff | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/13/20 |
| HB 4112 | Requiring county school boards to provide adequate mental health evaluations, and counseling services | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/13/20 |
| HB 4115 | Requiring compulsory immunization of public school children | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/13/20 |
| HB 4140 | Granting tax credits for parents and legal guardians whose children are in a home schooling program or private school | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/13/20 |
| HB 4148 | Authorizing the suspension or dismissal of school personnel who retaliate against a student or parent who has made a complaint | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/13/20 |
| HB 4153 | Forbidding displays relating to sexuality in public school facilities and forbidding the teaching of sexuality in public schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/14/20 |
| HB 4165 | West Virginia Remembers Program | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 3, 2020) | ||
| HB 4183 | Relating to mandatory drug testing of all classes of employees in K through 12 schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/14/20 |
| HB 4193 | Allowing private entities to lease buildings to local school boards in cases of emergency | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/14/20 |
| HB 4366 | Changing the school aid formula allowances for instructional technology and for AP and dual credit courses | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/16/20 |
| HB 4367 | Adding speech pathologists to the step increase for special education teachers | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/19/20 |
| HB 4378 | Relating to disciplining teachers | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 4, 2020) | ||
| HB 4398 | Relating to required courses of instruction | Pending | 3rd Reading | 03/07/20 | |
| HB 4408 | Requiring the State Board of Education to develop and implement an online database for the employment of school principals | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/24/20 |
| HB 4440 | Prohibiting the home schooling of children in certain circumstances | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/21/20 |
| HB 4457 | Requiring air conditioning on all school buses | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/22/20 |
| HB 4475 | Requiring the State Board of Education to provide for the routine education of all professional educators | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/22/20 |
| HB 4492 | West Virginia Children's Vision Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/23/20 |
| HB 4497 | Requiring an external defibrillator device at any secondary school athlete event | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 5, 2020) | ||
| HB 4518 | Relating to minimum salaries for teachers | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/23/20 |
| HB 4519 | Establishing a summer youth intern pilot program within Department of Commerce | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 2, 2020) | ||
| HB 4535 | Relating to student aide class titles | Pending | 3rd Reading | 03/07/20 | |
| HB 4538 | Modifying the definitions and pay grades of certain school cafeteria personnel | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/24/20 |
| HB 4546 | Relating to tuberculosis testing for school superintendents | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 2, 2020) | ||
| HB 4564 | Relating to participation in school sports | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/28/20 |
| HB 4568 | Requiring the State Board of Education to provide for the routine education of all professional educators | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/18/20 |
| HB 4596 | Declaring a shortage of qualified bus operators and allowing retired bus operators to accept employment | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/20 |
| HB 4614 | Requiring seat belts on every new school bus | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/30/20 |
| HB 4623 | Requiring all schools to instruct students on the Holocaust and other genocides | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/31/20 |
| HB 4624 | Permitting public employees the right to collectively bargain | Pending | House Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business | Committee | 01/31/20 |
| HB 4649 | Relating to implementation of trauma-informed practices in schools | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/14/20 |
| HB 4656 | Requiring test in civics to graduate high school or obtain GED | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/03/20 |
| HB 4659 | Relating to the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/03/20 |
| HB 4681 | Requiring schools to offer elective vocational courses in middle schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/04/20 |
| HB 4682 | Increasing annuity payment by one percent for certain retirants under a Consolidated Public Retirement Board retirement system | Pending | House Pensions and Retirement | Committee | 02/04/20 |
| HB 4692 | Relating to calculation of the school aid formula based on net enrollment | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/05/20 |
| HB 4712 | Consolidating the 55 county school boards into 10 district school boards | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/06/20 |
| HB 4724 | Providing a tax credit to encourage new teachers to remain in the state | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/06/20 |
| HB 4740 | Designating social workers in the DHHR to help improve or maintain school attendance and performance, health and well-being | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/07/20 |
| HB 4745 | Replacing minimum minutes of instructional time required per day with a requirement for an average of five hours per day | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/07/20 |
| HB 4753 | Requiring the authority to obtain approval from county board of education for agreements that involve tax revenues expended for public schools | Pending | House Political Subdivisions | Committee | 02/07/20 |
| HB 4755 | Requiring a vote on school closure or consolidation in certain circumstances | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/07/20 |
| HB 4771 | Requiring "Mine War History Day" be observed in schools every year | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/10/20 |
| HB 4780 | Permitting county boards to offer elective courses of instruction on the Bible | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 2, 2020) | ||
| HB 4785 | Providing school days to register and transport students to vote | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/10/20 |
| HB 4804 | Relating to comprehensive systems of support for teacher and leader induction and professional growth | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 5, 2020) | ||
| HB 4825 | Requiring students to compete only against students of the same biological gender | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4836 | Adopting and implementing a "Heat and Humidity Practice Policy" for all interscholastic athletic events | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4841 | Relating to public school faculty senates | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4843 | Relating to public school education assessment of students for dyslexia and dyscalculia | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/18/20 |
| HB 4854 | Changing the method of filling vacancies in county boards of education | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4879 | Granting jurisdiction to supervise youth sport league events to county boards of education and the Secondary School Activities Commission | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4890 | Relating to the removal of standardized testing in public schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4914 | Providing pay raises to public school teachers | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4917 | Changing student to school nurse staffing ratios | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4923 | Establishing a ratio of one counselor for every 250 students | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4925 | Requiring the Secondary Schools Athletic Commission to recognize preparatory athletic programs | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 2, 2020) | ||
| HB 4937 | Relating to home school students | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4938 | Allowing state employees to take paid leave to attend parent-teacher conferences for their children | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4942 | Establishing that the educational instructional term for students shall begin no earlier than Labor Day | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4950 | Requiring county boards of education to provide one social worker for each 1000 students | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/11/20 |