Bill Status - 2026 Regular Session
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There are 293 bill(s) regarding Education (K12)
| Bill | Title | Status | Committee | Step | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 6 | Requiring legal actions concerning WVSSAC to be filed in Wood or Kanawha County | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 9 | Requiring age-appropriate instruction on Holocaust in public schools | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 10 | Prohibiting schools from starting earlier than 7:45 am | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 11 | Allowing certain Teachers Retirement System members to exchange unused leave for monetary compensation | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 01/30/26 |
| SB 21 | Allowing students, coaching staff, and athletic trainers to participate in non-school athletic activities | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 39 | Requiring heart health program in grades three through six | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 41 | Creating Standardized Testing Choice Act | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 46 | Requiring moment of silence at beginning of each school day | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 51 | Requiring course in public schools on human development | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 53 | Providing greater access to unused buildings for public charter schools | Pending | Senate Select Committee on School Choice | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 63 | Creating Sustaining Opportunities for Academics in Rural Schools Act | Signed | Effective from passage - (March 14, 2026) | ||
| SB 67 | Relating to public charter schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 03/09/26 |
| SB 83 | Reducing number of days required for certain educators to apply for full-time employment | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 89 | Providing members of State Teachers Retirement System are absent from service while serving as officer with statewide professional teaching association | Pending | Senate Pensions | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 92 | Relating to enhanced pay for certain teachers | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 102 | Establishing Summer Feeding for All Program | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 01/28/26 |
| SB 116 | Establishing Raylee's Law | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 122 | Repealing athletic eligibility of transfer students | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 123 | Requiring ambulance, if available, at middle school or high school football game | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 124 | Authorizing certain age-appropriate child sexual abuse prevention and sexual violence prevention instruction | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 133 | Relating to teaching experience requirement for teacher certification renewal and attainment of permanent certification | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 155 | Relating to adjunct teaching permits | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 12, 2026) | ||
| SB 162 | Requiring WV Board of Education to promulgate legislative rule relating to concussion protocol | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 170 | Allowing career technical education program to be part of local high school | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| SB 171 | Creating WV Released Time Education Act | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 176 | Increasing non-traditional instruction days for WV teachers | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/04/26 |
| SB 196 | Relating generally to liability insurance coverage for board of education | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 01/30/26 |
| SB 203 | Providing for substantial deference to state school superintendent's interpretations of school laws | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 214 | Creating Community School Funding Formula Revision Act | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 215 | Creating WV Constitutional Schools Act of 2026 | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 216 | Restoring Private Schools Act of 2026 | Pending | Senate Select Committee on School Choice | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 217 | Creating Community Schools Funding Formula Revision Act | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 218 | Creating Community School Support Fund | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 219 | Creating moratorium on school closings and consolidation | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 223 | Creating Community School Parents' Choice Act | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 224 | Creating Support for Neglected Schools Act | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 232 | Establishing WV Secondary School Athletic Trainer and Career Technical Education Program Act | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/04/26 |
| SB 234 | West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission Reform Act | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 240 | Approving overtime pay for teachers | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 241 | Allowing Board of Education to prohibit individuals on sex offender registry from being on school property | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 246 | Establishing minimum student enrollment for school aid formula | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| SB 386 | Creating mobile training team for school safety | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/15/26 |
| SB 388 | Requiring public elementary or secondary school make Aitken Bible available to certain classrooms | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/30/26 |
| SB 394 | Authorizing WVSSAC to promulgate legislative rules | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/15/26 |
| SB 406 | Reorganizing School Building Authority as School Maintenance Authority | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/15/26 |
| SB 409 | High School Educator Flexibility Act of 2026 | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/15/26 |
| SB 428 | Creating three separate job titles for school bus operators | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| SB 437 | Fair State Aid Formula Act of 2026 | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/13/26 |
| SB 442 | Creating homeless education coordinator position in counties designated by State Board as urban county | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/16/26 |
| SB 449 | Relating to teaching and instructing world languages in public schools | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/16/26 |
| SB 489 | Creating High School Educator Flexibility Act | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/19/26 |
| SB 504 | West Virginia Rural School Protection Act | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/19/26 |
| SB 516 | Increasing state minimum salary for teachers | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/20/26 |
| SB 536 | Relating to qualifications for serving on certain academic boards | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/04/26 |
| SB 554 | Establishing enrollment stabilizer mechanism within public school support plan | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| SB 555 | Establishing Essential Personnel Bridge Grant Program | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| SB 558 | Relating to school bus safety violations by vehicle operators | Vetoed | Vetoed | ||
| SB 567 | Prohibiting charging Hope Scholarship students fees for extracurricular program-related services | Pending | Senate Select Committee on School Choice | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| SB 579 | Improving school district efficiency | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/22/26 |
| SB 591 | Prohibiting teaching of divisive acts and critical race theory in public schools | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/23/26 |
| SB 600 | Limiting family income for Hope Scholarship eligibility | Pending | Senate Select Committee on School Choice | Committee | 01/27/26 |
| SB 605 | Providing tax credit for homeschool students | Pending | Senate Select Committee on School Choice | Committee | 01/27/26 |
| SB 612 | Establishing November 7 as Victims of Communism Day | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/27/26 |
| SB 619 | Creating Stop the Bleed Act | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/24/26 |
| SB 633 | Relating to WV Commission on Holocaust Education | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/12/26 |
| SB 644 | Requiring Economic Development Authority participate in federal tax credit scholarship program | Pending | House Education | Committee | 03/03/26 |
| SB 657 | Creating Cohen Craddock Student Athlete Safety Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 03/05/26 |
| SB 684 | Relating to required courses of instruction for private, parochial, and church schools | Pending | Senate Select Committee on School Choice | Committee | 01/30/26 |
| SB 687 | Prohibiting obscene materials in or within 2,500 feet of WV schools | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 01/30/26 |
| SB 689 | Creating WV Homeschool Student Athletics Participation Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 03/03/26 |
| SB 694 | Removing county residency requirement for county superintendent of schools | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 7, 2026) | ||
| SB 696 | Permitting women's wrestling in certain public schools | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/02/26 |
| SB 713 | Providing 10 percent raise for all public school staff | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/02/26 |
| SB 720 | WV Comprehensive Student and Family Support Act | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/03/26 |
| SB 737 | Authorizing county boards of education to accept volunteers as certified chaplains | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/04/26 |
| SB 739 | Creating Protecting Shareholders Act | Pending | Senate Banking and Insurance | Committee | 02/04/26 |
| SB 745 | Relating to requirements for school nutrition programs | Pending | House Education | Committee | 03/06/26 |
| SB 748 | Requiring parental notification of school-based dispensaries of contraceptives to minors | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| SB 758 | Providing extra state aid to school districts for students enrolled in certain schools | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| SB 778 | Relating to eligibility for homebound services for exceptional children | Pending | House Education | Committee | 03/08/26 |
| SB 801 | Increasing each school district's basic foundation program | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/11/26 |
| SB 802 | Relating to school preparation days | Pending | House Education | Committee | 03/02/26 |
| SB 803 | Requiring competency assessment upon return to public school | Pending | Senate Select Committee on School Choice | Committee | 02/06/26 |
| SB 804 | Removing physical education requirements for certain middle and high school athletes | Pending | House Education | Committee | 03/08/26 |
| SB 870 | Providing $10,000 pay raise to teachers across five years | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/09/26 |
| SB 885 | Allowing Tier II teachers to bank unused sick time toward retirement | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/09/26 |
| SB 889 | Requiring recreational facilities have AED accessible | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/09/26 |
| SB 890 | Changing certain school calendar requirements from days or months to hours | Signed | Effective July 1, 2027 | ||
| SB 899 | Permitting certain teachers to be certified to work as school principals | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 12, 2026) | ||
| SB 910 | Removing unintended limitation on excused absences for students in certain extracurriculars | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/11/26 |
| SB 919 | Creating Safe School Events Music Act | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/11/26 |
| SB 925 | Providing Future Farmers of America-sanctioned activities not count toward limit of excused absences | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/23/26 |
| SB 929 | Relating to state board intervention into county school systems | Pending | House Education | Committee | 03/05/26 |
| SB 962 | Requiring high school students to pass US citizenship exam | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/17/26 |
| SB 964 | Creating volunteer board to review and rate library books | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 02/17/26 |
| SB 966 | Changing requirements for home school instruction | Pending | 2nd Reading | 02/27/26 | |
| SB 969 | Providing county boards of education option to obtain certain alternate professional or other liability insurance coverage | Pending | Senate Banking and Insurance | Committee | 02/17/26 |
| SB 988 | Authorizing staffing recommendations and limits by Department of Education | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/18/26 |
| SB 1004 | Adding voter approval requirement to close or consolidate schools | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/19/26 |
| SB 1020 | Allowing up to five educational leave days within definition of "excused absence" | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/27/26 |
| SB 1024 | Allowing rescission or reversal of school closure decisions through July 15 | Pending | House Education | Committee | 03/03/26 |
| SB 1027 | Modifying WV Invests Grant Program eligibility requirements | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/20/26 |
| SB 1034 | Increasing amount of funding counties receive for HOPE Scholarship enrollments | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/20/26 |
| SB 1044 | Requiring Board of Education to promulgate rule that sets forth common graduation requirements | Pending | House Education | Committee | 03/03/26 |
| SB 1048 | Transferring responsibility of school position eliminations to WV Board of Education | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/24/26 |
| SB 1051 | Creating Charter School Revolving Loan Fund | Pending | Senate Select Committee on School Choice | Committee | 02/21/26 |
| SB 1061 | Authorizing reassignment of school personnel in certain instances | Pending | House Education | Committee | 03/03/26 |
| SB 1064 | Redefining "long-term substitute" as it relates to public school personnel | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 12, 2026) | ||
| SB 1067 | Creating extended daycare program for elementary schools | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/23/26 |
| SB 1070 | Authorizing School Building Authority to fund grounds and site improvements | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/23/26 |
| SB 1078 | Clarifying requirements of possession and administration of epinephrine in schools | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/23/26 |
| SB 1080 | Requiring amount of reduction of state aid be appropriated in support of certain low-enrollment county school districts | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/24/26 |
| SB 1081 | Establishing School Finance Transparency Commission | Pending | 1st Reading | 02/27/26 | |
| HB 4034 | To display the Ten Commandments in public schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4037 | Consolidate county school boards | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4062 | To create the West Virginia Homeschool Student Athletics Participation Act. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/17/26 |
| HB 4063 | Relating to requiring the State Board of Education to design, test, and deploy an internet-based reporting system to be known as the School Choice Portal | Pending | House Educational Choice | Committee | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4066 | Creating penalties for county and state boards of education for providing misinformation to parents, custodians, reviewers, or any other individual through any form of communication | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4071 | Requiring K–12 schools to display school report card on website | Pending | House Public Education | Committee | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4077 | Remove standardized testing in public and private schools | Pending | House Public Education | Committee | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4082 | Require the West Virginia Department of Education to provide a complete and in-depth budget for review to the Legislature. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4090 | Provide for the employment or acceptance as avolunteer of a Certified Chaplain by public school board | Pending | House Public Education | Committee | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4093 | To allow those with a concealed carry license to carry a concealed handgun in public school property and buildings. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4100 | Relating to human growth and development curriculum | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4103 | Relating to the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4104 | American Civics and History Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4105 | To provide requirements relating to education of students and young adults about unplannned pregnancy options | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4112 | Provide tax credit for homeschool students | Pending | House Educational Choice | Committee | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4115 | To modify the required amount of contracted teaching days and provide for breaks per semester for teachers. | Pending | House Public Education | Committee | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4122 | To require cameras in every classroom and room where children are present | Pending | House Public Education | Committee | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4133 | Defining a work day for school service personnel and removing a provision relating to employment of licensed practical nurses | Pending | House Public Education | Committee | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4136 | To require the Department of Education to alter who can certify homeschool portfolios or review them | Pending | House Educational Choice | Committee | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4145 | Creating a school choice office. | Pending | House Government Administration | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4146 | To require compulsory vaccinations for anyone employed by the public school system in this state. | Pending | House Public Education | Committee | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4181 | Permitting middle or high school students to participate in travel sports teams without repercussion. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/14/26 |
| HB 4368 | Relating to military connected students | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/15/26 |
| HB 4372 | Permit teachers in K-12 schools be authorized to carry concealed firearms as a designated school protection officer | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/15/26 |
| HB 4383 | West Virginia Clean Air in Schools Act of 2026 | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/15/26 |
| HB 4395 | Relating to investigations of allegations of child safety violations for school personnel. | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 11, 2026) | ||
| HB 4402 | Relating to school protection officers | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/18/26 |
| HB 4422 | To permit students in eighth and ninth grade to attend summer school in order to raise their grades and establish academic eligibility to participate in extracurricular activities in the fall | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/30/26 |
| HB 4425 | To repeal the provision allowing for students to transfer from one school to another without losing eligibility. | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 11, 2026) | ||
| HB 4440 | Permitting law enforcement to issue a citation when students are caught with nicotine in schools. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/03/26 |
| HB 4449 | Permitting cameras in classrooms | Pending | House Public Education | Committee | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4450 | Removing 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 | Pending | House Public Education | Committee | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4453 | Regarding Teacher Pay | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/16/26 |
| HB 4467 | Relating to maternity leave for school employees | Pending | House Public Education | Committee | 02/03/26 |
| HB 4485 | Allow education employees to donate sick leave to co-workers for maternity leave | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/20/26 |
| HB 4497 | To not entitle WV students to get aid from any WV schools unless they pass a college qualification exam in the 10th grade | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4505 | Requiring each county school board to employ at least one full time school nurse | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4544 | To create a homeless education coordinator in urban and rural counties. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/19/26 |
| HB 4572 | Rural School Flexibility & Innovation Pilot Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/20/26 |
| HB 4573 | Foster Youth Post-Secondary Transition Awareness Act | Pending | Concurrence | 03/14/26 | |
| HB 4578 | To provide more local control over educational decisionmaking, differentiation of funding for counties, and to address operational efficiencies within education. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/20/26 |
| HB 4584 | Market pay for Teachers | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/20/26 |
| HB 4588 | Relating to participating in the federal tax credit scholarship program | Pending | Concurrence | 03/14/26 | |
| HB 4593 | Allow for PE classes to be optional for students who can demonstrate 5 or more weekly hours of outside physical activity | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/20/26 |
| HB 4605 | Relating to modifying the school aid formula to provide more support for schools under certain circumstances. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/20/26 |
| HB 4607 | Relating to standards of private schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/20/26 |
| HB 4608 | School Board Election Date Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/20/26 |
| HB 4611 | Creating the Hope to Help Community Schools Act of 2026. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/20/26 |
| HB 4634 | Support for neglected Schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4637 | Limit the time Teachers Aides can be pulled from their regular duties to 30 minutes per day. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4641 | Relating to codifying the guidelines for nutritionally adequate school breakfasts and lunches | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/03/26 |
| HB 4644 | Require that County Superintendents of Schools for the Department of Education be West Virginia residents. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4646 | Remote Schools Support Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4654 | To require that teachers in grades 7 through twelve, who teach classes with more than 30 students in their classes receive an additional $25 per day per student over the 30 student-limit, with exceptions for physical education, band, chorus, strings, theater, dance, and other classes aimed at artistic performance. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4655 | Expand the grade level for Laken’s Law | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4656 | Relating to chronic absenteeism | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 03/11/26 |
| HB 4658 | To add to the teacher pay scale the increments of Bachelor’s Plus 30 and Master’s Plus 60 and add that amount in the appropriate increment. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4659 | Transfer oversight of childcare from the Department of Human Services to the Department of Education | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4660 | To move any remaining sixth grade classifications from elementary schools to middle schools. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/23/26 |
| HB 4670 | To create a pilot program that would exempt certain counties from provisions of the Education code. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4690 | To repeal obsolete and outdated sections of the Education code. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4697 | 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 | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/03/26 |
| HB 4698 | Require adoption awareness material be made available in high school counseling offices | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4701 | Relating to the creation of the West Virginia Math & Science Teacher Scholarship Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4705 | To require a moment of silence at the beginning of school each day in the state | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4708 | Clarifying how substitute teachers may serve for extended periods. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/21/26 |
| HB 4727 | To provide a 25% pay increase for state teachers (all salary scales) | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/22/26 |
| HB 4759 | Modifing the rules for transferring students | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/09/26 |
| HB 4774 | To set the salary of the Associate Superintendent of Schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/23/26 |
| HB 4775 | Relating to addressing School Discipline in Public Schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/03/26 |
| HB 4777 | Establishing Summer Feeding for All Program | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/23/26 |
| HB 4794 | Requiring high school students to pass a test on the US Constitution to graduate from high school | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/23/26 |
| HB 4798 | Permitting teachers to wear a “mobile alert button” for emergency situations, to be known as “Alyssa’s Law.” | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 8, 2026) | ||
| HB 4817 | Relating to modifying the Charter Schools Startup Fund | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/17/26 |
| HB 4818 | Relating to providing greater access to unused public buildings for public charter schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/26/26 |
| HB 4834 | To permit women’s wrestling in public high schools as a sanctioned event | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/17/26 |
| HB 4844 | Modify the procedure for teachers when using leave | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/27/26 |
| HB 4847 | Local Shares teacher and school personnel pay | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/27/26 |
| HB 4849 | Authorize the Superintendent of the county schools district to apply directly to the School Building Authority for emergency funding to facilitate remediation of hazards. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/27/26 |
| HB 4851 | Relating to creating a moratorium on school closures and consolidations pending a West Virginia Department of Education (“WVDE”) school aid formula proposal. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/27/26 |
| HB 4855 | To the elimination of the West Virginia Department of Education and providing direct funding for education | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/28/26 |
| HB 4859 | Allowing a county board of education participating in the operation of a multicounty vocational center to withdraw | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/28/26 |
| HB 4860 | Direct Classroom Funding Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/28/26 |
| HB 4871 | Make available vegetarian meal option for students enrolled in schools, provided that such meals comply with all applicable federal nutritional guidelines | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/17/26 |
| HB 4875 | To provide a 25% pay increase for state school service personnel (all salary scales) | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/28/26 |
| HB 4892 | To expand the provisionof the literacy-based promation act in order to provide certin intervention and implementation stratagies for literacy proficiency among students in grade 4 through grade 8 | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/28/26 |
| HB 4900 | To mandate county boards of education to provide feminine hygiene products in all public elementary, middle, and high schools for female students | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/28/26 |
| HB 4904 | Relating to critical vacancies in public education | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4905 | 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 | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4914 | West Virginia Education Freedom and Parental Empowerment Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4918 | Mandate the number of School days or hours required | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4937 | Establish mandated monthly half days for students to all allow school staff planning time | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4938 | Require county boards of education to train at least one professional staff member at each school in a grant writing procedures. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4939 | To provide $10,000 a year salary increase for any teacher who goes through the National Board Certification process and becomes nationally certified | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4940 | Relating to teacher fundraising | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4941 | To provide a raise for special education aides, as well as a raise for self-contained special education teachers | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4942 | To establish requirements for adult supervision on county school buses | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4943 | Require all students to be taught how to properly handle, fold, treat, honor, display, and retire the American flag | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4944 | To determine the salaries of all county Superintendent of School based on population. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4945 | Prohibit the use of electronic devices for learning in all classrooms grades 3 and below | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4946 | Authorizing a pilot program for a four day school week | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4950 | To establish the West Virginia Freedom and Innovation Pilot Act of 2026 | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/17/26 |
| HB 4952 | Related to the establishment of the Charter School Direct Loan Program and the Charter School Credit Enhancement Program within the West Virginia Economic Development Authority | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4953 | To require all West Virginia high school students to pass a Civics examination and the United States Naturalization Examination | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4955 | To ensure that classroom sizes are equal without losing a teachers aide | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4956 | To change the beginning of the school year to the Tuesday after Labor Day and the end of the school year to the Friday before Memorial Day. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4957 | To change the amount of days in a school year from 180 to 160. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4967 | To allow for the WVSSAC to pull coaching certificates of coaches who are found guilty of illegal recruiting | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4973 | Relating to raising the state minimum salary for teachers to $50,000 beginning in school year 2026-2027 | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4975 | To consolidate county boards of education and create regional districts. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/26 |
| HB 4987 | Relating to the creation of the Safety and Violence Education for Students Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/30/26 |
| HB 4995 | Require the use of video cameras in certain special education classrooms | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 11, 2026) | ||
| HB 5005 | Providing liability protection for video cameras in certain classrooms. | Pending | House Public Education | Committee | 02/02/26 |
| HB 5012 | Providing for in-year school personnel movement to meet school needs. | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 11, 2026) | ||
| HB 5043 | Raising salaries for school service personnel | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/02/26 |
| HB 5045 | 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 | 02/02/26 |
| HB 5048 | To ensure virtual instruction for foster students while in temporary placement facilities. | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 12, 2026) | ||
| HB 5051 | To modify the teacher retirement system so that Tier 2 teachers may use annual/sick leave towards retirement | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/02/26 |
| HB 5053 | To institute safeguards to verify educational quality for homeschooled students, particularly concerning core subjects and manufactured grades | Pending | House Public Education | Committee | 02/17/26 |
| HB 5061 | Relating to the consolidation of county school districts in the state. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5072 | Creating the TechCred Program | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5089 | Relating to public school acceptance of student transcripts or other credentials | Signed | Effective Ninety Days from Passage - (June 9, 2026) | ||
| HB 5090 | To eliminate all vaccine requirements for school children | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5115 | To implement trauma-informed practices in schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5118 | Provide for statewide participation in the federal Community Eligibility Provision for its duration | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5121 | To mandate county boards of education to provide feminine hygiene products in all public elementary, middle, and high schools for female students | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5124 | Relating to the eligibility of nonpublic schools and education service providers to participate in the Hope Scholarship Program | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5126 | To make it explicit that both the lottery fund and the excess lottery fund can be utilized for early childhood education throughout West Virginia | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5132 | Develop a new method to determine the minimum number of hours per day and per school year to be spent on instructional time. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5137 | Exempting county school buses from paying the toll fees | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5148 | Student Bill of Rights | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/03/26 |
| HB 5163 | Relating to exempting child-care programs operated by a county board of education exclusively for the children of its employees from certain licensing requirements | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 03/09/26 |
| HB 5180 | When schools have events the school needs to sell tickets at the gate as well as online and accept cash | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/04/26 |
| HB 5192 | School funding calculations should be the last three-year running average or the current enrollment, whichever is highest | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/04/26 |
| HB 5194 | To ban calculators and math computational devices from K-8 grade classrooms. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/04/26 |
| HB 5205 | Requiring the State Board of Education to create model policies on the use of technology and artifical intelligence in a public school classroom | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5239 | To increase the minimum starting salary for a teacher to $50,000 | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5245 | Creating the Governor’s Cup competition | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5247 | Establishing a pilot program to develop school-based mental and behavioral health services | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5248 | To create an initiative to provide minorities and males with an incentive to join the public education field | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5249 | Limiting the use of state funding under the Hope Scholarship Program for out-of-state private schools and providers | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5257 | Relating to education to children and adults housed in correctional facilities and regional jails | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5265 | Relating to calculating max number of students at alternative and year-round schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5270 | To allow public high schools to have full time athletic trainers | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5271 | Granting full time employees of county boards of education three months of paid leave following the birth of a child | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/05/26 |
| HB 5321 | To guarantee timely educational evaluations and continuity of services for children entering foster care. | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 03/04/26 |
| HB 5322 | Relating to Animal Abuse | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/09/26 |
| HB 5335 | Relating to Animal Abuse | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/09/26 |
| HB 5338 | Health Freedom for Teachers and Students Act. | Pending | House Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/09/26 |
| HB 5339 | Prevent public school districts or supervisors from taking adverse action against public school employees for expressing opinions on social media or in public. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/09/26 |
| HB 5346 | Creating the school aid formula study commission | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/09/26 |
| HB 5355 | If a person who is not certified is holding a teaching position in a WV public school - that position has to come up for bid every year until it is held by a certified person. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/09/26 |
| HB 5356 | Modify Funding to Mountaineer ChalleNGe Academy | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/09/26 |
| HB 5369 | West Virginia Rural School Protection Act | House Education | Introduced | 02/09/26 | |
| HB 5387 | Relating to high school graduation requirements | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/10/26 |
| HB 5417 | Relating to authorizing the use of professional fireworks displays on public school property | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/10/26 |
| HB 5420 | Require the teaching of classical informal logic in public middle schools and implmenting rquirements for teachers to teach logic courses | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/10/26 |
| HB 5434 | Creating a moratorium for two years on school closures and providing for a pause on impending school closures. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/11/26 |
| HB 5435 | The purpose of this bill is to increase funding for rural counties in this state by adding a multiplier to the IEP calculation. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/11/26 |
| HB 5438 | To modify the foundation allowance to improve instructional programs. | Signed | Governor | 06/29/26 | |
| HB 5453 | To modify the school aid funding formula. | Pending | Concurrence | 03/14/26 | |
| HB 5478 | Establish a statewide pilot program to improve kindergarten readiness. | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/23/26 |
| HB 5495 | Creating certain requirements and accountability procedures regarding a student’s use of software in a public school. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/13/26 |
| HB 5499 | Relating to school system fiscal and governance early warning, stabilization, and accountability. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/13/26 |
| HB 5511 | To allow money to be paid to county board of education employees’ estates for accrued and unused leave if they pass away before retirement | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 03/09/26 |
| HB 5537 | Repealing obsolete and outdated sections of the Education code. | Pending | Concurrence | 03/14/26 | |
| HB 5575 | West Virginia Special Olympics Program. | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5577 | Strengthen school bullying laws. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5583 | West Virginia Seal of Civic Literacy Act. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5584 | Relating to require county school boards to provide one day in-service training to prepare county employees for annual competency tests. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5586 | Relating to granting an across-the-board raise for all classroom teachers. | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5587 | To authorize cameras in school buses to send red light violators footage directly to the applicable law enforcement agency for ticketing and enforcement | Pending | Senate Judiciary | Committee | 03/05/26 |
| HB 5619 | Display of National motto and Ten Commandments | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/16/26 |
| HB 5637 | Add weighted funding back into the school aid funding formula for students with unique learning needs | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/17/26 |
| HB 5643 | Allowing an LEA or public charter school to enroll, or refuse to enroll, a student who is unlawfully present in the United States | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/17/26 |
| HB 5644 | To establish provisions regarding student immigration status and nationality in WV public educational institutions | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/17/26 |
| HB 5647 | Relating to creating the Open and Equal Opportunities in Student Activities Act. | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/17/26 |
| HB 5663 | Regarding venue for legal actions against the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/17/26 |
| HB 5669 | Prohibiting the home schooling of children in certain circumstances | Pending | 2nd Reading | 03/05/26 | |
| HB 5679 | To modify county school boards and county boards of directors | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/17/26 |