Bill Status - 2024 Regular Session
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There are 62 bill(s) regarding Education (Higher)
| Bill | Title | Status | Committee | Step | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 259 | Requiring Higher Education Policy Commission to create and administer PROMISE Plus Program | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 01/22/24 |
| SB 292 | Hunger-Free Campus Act | Pending | 2nd Reading | 03/04/24 | |
| SB 327 | Providing funding for Hope Scholarship Program | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 01/12/24 |
| SB 334 | Enabling WVSU and Bluefield State University to offer associate degrees | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/12/24 |
| SB 343 | Providing medical examination transportation services for students who seek support after experiencing sexual violence | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/12/24 |
| SB 361 | Promise for Promise Act | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/12/24 |
| SB 363 | Creating mobile training team for school safety | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/12/24 |
| SB 423 | Relating to voluntary private school immunization | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/12/24 |
| SB 529 | Including Salem University in PROMISE Scholarship program | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 2, 2024) | ||
| SB 543 | Relating to research and economic development agreements for state institutions of higher education | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (May 9, 2024) | ||
| SB 546 | Updating STEM scholarship program | Pending | Senate Rules | Committee | 02/08/24 |
| SB 547 | Authorizing legislative rules for Higher Education Policy Commission | Signed | Effective from passage - (February 12, 2024) | ||
| SB 558 | Requiring publicly funded medical schools to teach certain life-saving methods | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/25/24 |
| SB 563 | Creating Office of Nursing Education and Workforce Development | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/02/24 |
| SB 572 | Creating Forensic Pathology Recruitment Program | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/07/24 |
| SB 584 | Including Salem University in PROMISE Scholarship program | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/29/24 |
| SB 599 | Exempting certain military veterans and their dependents from tuition | Pending | Senate Military | Committee | 01/30/24 |
| SB 681 | Revising service obligation for certain doctoral medical degree programs | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 7, 2024) | ||
| SB 795 | Limiting liability for accredited academic hospitals | Pending | Senate Banking and Insurance | Committee | 02/15/24 |
| HB 4172 | Amend section providing for waiver of tuition and fees for older persons auditing certain college classes | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4243 | Mountaineer Games Sports League | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4271 | Creating the Economic Development Tuition Waiver | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4357 | To prohibit public university names for gender affirming care | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4387 | Relating to nondiscrimination at institutions of higher education | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4439 | Prohibit requiring Covid-19 vaccine or booster shot to attend in person classes at colleges and universities | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4500 | To provide all National Merit Scholars free tuition to any West Virginia higher education institution in order to keep these scholars in state | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4572 | Relating to Social Media privacy and educational institutions | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/10/24 |
| HB 4629 | Hunger-Free Campus Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/11/24 |
| HB 4637 | To establish a grant program for colleges that take steps to establish themselves as Student Basic Needs campuses | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/11/24 |
| HB 4693 | Expanding the amount of promise scholarship funds awarded to persons majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/15/24 |
| HB 4720 | Tuition and fee exemptions for service-connected Disabled Veterans and their dependents. | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/08/24 |
| HB 4763 | Establishing the behavioral health workforce education initiative at the Higher Education Policy Commission | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/08/24 |
| HB 4814 | Relating to extending the reporting and sunset dates of the State Advisory Council on Postsecondary Attainment Goals | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (May 29, 2024) | ||
| HB 4819 | To require higher education institutions in West Virginia to accept the CLT as an ACT or SAT equivalent. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/16/24 |
| HB 4846 | Relating to “In God We Trust” signs donated in schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/17/24 |
| HB 4899 | WV Belief-Based Campus Student Organization Bill | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/18/24 |
| HB 4919 | Relating to the Promise Scholarship | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 5, 2024) | ||
| HB 4921 | Relating generally to tuition for children of out of state alumni of WV state universities. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/18/24 |
| HB 4939 | Banning certain practices by medical students without informed consent | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/19/24 |
| HB 4945 | Relating generally to the Hope Scholarship Program | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 7, 2024) | ||
| HB 4958 | To create the American Campuses Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/22/24 |
| HB 4969 | To allow schools to withhold a diploma from students who cause at least $1,000 in damage due to destruction of property or defacement | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/22/24 |
| HB 4981 | Gun carry allowed on college campuses | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/22/24 |
| HB 4986 | Relating to computer science and cybersecurity instruction for adult learners | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 4, 2024) | ||
| HB 5038 | Relating to research and economic development agreements for state institutions of higher education | Pending | 2nd Reading | 02/07/24 | |
| HB 5040 | Fast Track for Agriculture Education Endorsement | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/23/24 |
| HB 5050 | Relating to authorizing legislative rules regarding higher education. | Pending | 2nd Reading | 02/07/24 | |
| HB 5078 | To include Salem University in programs wherein the Promise Scholarship is accepted | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/02/24 |
| HB 5127 | Including Potomac State College in the definition of community and technical college education program for participation in the “Learn and Earn Program” | Pending | 3rd Reading | 03/07/24 | |
| HB 5141 | Universities must accept religious, medical, or right of conscience exemptions to taking vaccinations | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/25/24 |
| HB 5153 | Relating to revising, updating and streamlining the requirements governing the West Virginia Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarship. | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (May 13, 2024) | ||
| HB 5162 | Establish a program to promote creation and expansion of registered apprenticeship programs | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 7, 2024) | ||
| HB 5175 | Eliminate funding for the Center for Nursing and transfer its duties and authorities to the Higher Education Policy Commission. | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (May 29, 2024) | ||
| HB 5210 | Relating to voluntary private school immunization | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/12/24 |
| HB 5223 | To create the Southern Coalfield Resiliency and Revitalization Program | Pending | Concurrence | 03/09/24 | |
| HB 5347 | Relating to establishing a program for emergency medical services personnel to become certified paramedics | Signed | Effective July 1, 2024 | ||
| HB 5435 | Establishing the registered apprenticeship to associate of applied science program to be administered by the Council for Community and Technical College Education | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 6, 2024) | ||
| HB 5513 | To create the Great Expectations Pilot Program | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/07/24 |
| HB 5586 | Requiring publicly funded medical schools to teach certain life-saving methods | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/12/24 |
| HB 5594 | Exempting the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, West Virginia University and Marshall University from contracts, agreements, or memorandums of understanding with spending units in state government with exceptions. | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 5, 2024) | ||
| HB 5625 | Relating to updating names of institutions of higher education and nondiscrimination in leadership positions | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/12/24 |
| HB 5666 | The Forming Open and Robust University Minds (FORUM) Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/13/24 |