WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 4204
By Delegate Toney
[Introduced January 10, 2024; 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 §18A-4-23, relating to candidates for professional employee positions involving supervision of a county transportation department; making any service employee who is certified as a Director or Supervisor of Pupil Transportation by the National Association for Pupil Transportation Certification an eligible candidate and requiring county boards to consider such candidates.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
(a) A service employee who is certified as a Director or Supervisor of Pupil Transportation by the National Association for Pupil Transportation is eligible for any professional employee position involving supervision of a county transportation department.
(b) If a county board posts a professional employee position involving supervision of a county transportation department, the county board shall consider any applicant for the position who is a service employee and who is certified as a Director or Supervisor of Pupil Transportation by the National Association for Pupil Transportation.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to make service employees with National Association for Pupil Transportation Certification as a Director or Supervisor of Pupil Transportation eligible as candidates for professional employee positions involving supervision of a county transportation department and requiring county boards to consider such candidates.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.