WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2025 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 2639

By Delegates Cooper and Heckert

[Introduced February 20, 2025; referred to the Committee on Education]

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §18-2-46, relating to banning the use of electronic calculators by public school students in grades pre-kindergarten through six.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

Article 2. State Board of Education.

§18-2-46. Electronic calculators prohibited for grades pre-kindergarten through six.

Public schools located in this state may not permit students from grades pre-kindergarten through six to use electronic calculators of any kind.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to ban the use of electronic calculators of any kind by public school students in grades pre-kindergarten through six in order to permit students to develop math and arithmetic basics before electronic aids are used.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.