Bill Status - 2014 Regular Session
Committee Activity
107 Bills Pending in Committee — House Education
| Bill | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| SB 381 | Requiring CPR and care for conscious choking instruction in public schools | 02/28/14 |
| SB 455 | Creating Move to Improve Act | 02/28/14 |
| SB 493 | Excluding suspension days in determining student truancy | 02/25/14 |
| SB 540 | Requiring SSAC promulgate rules allowing college preparatory team recognition | 02/20/14 |
| HB 2002 | Providing for the use of neck braces by football players | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2017 | Providing nonsupervisory employees of the West Virginia State Board of Education with the same protections against summary dismissal as are applicable to employees of county boards of education | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2024 | Allowing guidance counselors to compete equally for all guidance counselor positions | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2028 | Relating to the employment and compensation of school service personnel | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2034 | Exempting children receiving an exemption from compulsory school attendance in favor of church school from standardized testing requirement | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2035 | Providing full daily rate of pay for substitute teachers if they have in excess of ten instructional days in the same school year | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2036 | Relating to itinerant status for school service personnel | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2053 | Requiring county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2090 | Relating to redemption or repayment of PROMISE scholarship funds when a student drops or withdraws from classes | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2121 | Requiring elementary students to have access to a certified library media specialist, art specialist, music specialist and physical education specialist | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2134 | Allowing the school building authority to designate money for the building of playgrounds | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2162 | Relating to educational benefits for dependents of deceased or disabled veterans | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2163 | Adding $20 million to the West Virginia Research Trust Fund | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2169 | Relating to school service personnel classification and compensation | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2186 | Protecting academic speech of professional educators | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2190 | Requiring the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission to propose legislative rules concerning concussions | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2221 | Decreasing the student to teacher ratio in kindergarten through sixth grades | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2223 | Relating to compulsory school attendance | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2224 | Providing paid childbirth leave for higher education personnel | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2228 | Creating the Higher Education Merit Screening Advisory Committee | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2233 | Relating to the School Building Authority | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2236 | Providing a salary supplement for providers of medicaid eligible services in the public schools | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2247 | Relating to residency requirements for persons appointed as campus police officers | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2250 | Providing a loan forgiveness program for nurses, social workers, dentists and hygienists | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2271 | Retaining nursing educators | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2281 | Increasing the pay grade of cafeteria managers | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2289 | Requiring that transportation to and from school be provided for each child that needs or desires transportation | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2291 | Relating to the denial of course credits for unexcused absences in school | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2303 | Requiring all high schools include in their health classes a course in fetal development | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2315 | Requiring automated external defibrillators in public schools | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2326 | Relating to persons who do not qualify for professional certificates who are issued certificates to serve in the public schools as athletic coaches | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2329 | Relating to the use of personal leave days by a surviving spouse of a deceased employee of a school board | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2340 | Relating to teacher pay rate for work assignment outside regular school day or beyond a contracted employment period | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2342 | Permitting the issuance of a barrister's certificate to teach course specific curricula in public schools | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2343 | Increasing the educational increment for school service personnel | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2376 | Increasing salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2400 | Relating to disclosure of sex offender registration to private elementary and secondary schools, and to higher education institutions | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2416 | Authorizing the School Building Authority to award grants or moneys to county and local library boards in connection with public library construction projects | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2474 | Authorizing tax credits for parents and legal guardians whose children are in a home schooling program | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2496 | West Virginia School Personnel Survivor Benefit Act | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2517 | Permitting volunteer firefighters to automatically qualify for Promise Scholarships | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2526 | Allowing for the participation of home schooled students in certain secondary school activities | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2545 | Creating the Nonresident Medical Student Tuition Regularization Program | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2560 | Providing exceptions to the prohibition of the possession of deadly weapons on premises of educational facilities | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2581 | Requiring that a sum certain be deposited into the Education Improvement Fund for appropriation by the Legislature | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2592 | Establishing a Library Facilities Improvement Fund | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2594 | Relating to required courses of school instruction generally | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2741 | Protecting academic freedom in higher education | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2743 | Consolidating purchasing by county boards of education | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2744 | Allowing a tax deduction for all prepaid tuition contracts or college savings plan | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2745 | Exempting undergraduate students attending state colleges or universities for the first two years postgraduation, from the payment of state income tax | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2746 | Extending the Teachers' State Minimum Salary Schedule and equity supplements | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2807 | Requiring the State Board of Education to pay annual bonuses of $5,000 to certain teachers | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2808 | Authorizing the establishment of charter schools | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2827 | Modifying the funding ratio of school students to counselors | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2873 | Requiring that public schools provide facilities for students of all faiths and religions to have a place of fellowship, prayer and worship | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2891 | Relating to scholarships for dependent children of state troopers who die in performance of duty | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2920 | Making clear that the Pledge of Allegiance said each instructional day in West Virginia public schools shall include the phrase "one nation under God." | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2937 | Authorizing a county school board to adopt a policy that allows an inspirational message | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2963 | Providing educators released time to serve on county commissions | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2973 | Allowing certain county boards of education to operate their schools on a four-day school week | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2982 | Prohibiting the use of calculators for teaching purposes in grades K through eight | 01/09/14 |
| HB 2983 | Requiring inclusion of science fiction reading material in certain existing middle school and high school courses | 01/09/14 |
| HB 3009 | Schoolchildren's Religious Liberties Act | 01/09/14 |
| HB 3042 | Providing a teacher mentoring increment for classroom teachers with national board certification who teach and mentor at certain schools | 01/09/14 |
| HB 3050 | Relating to salary increases for teachers based on residential housing costs | 01/09/14 |
| HB 3111 | Relating to computing local share of public education support | 01/09/14 |
| HB 3133 | Relating to voting by absentees | 01/09/14 |
| HB 3143 | Creating an environmental awareness program in the West Virginia School system | 01/09/14 |
| HB 4009 | Permitting institutions of higher education to perform background checks | 01/08/14 |
| HB 4120 | Requiring the State Superintendent of Schools to be elected on a nonpartisan basis | 01/09/14 |
| HB 4136 | Educational Equality Act | 01/14/14 |
| HB 4142 | Setting the maximum number of pupils per teacher in sixth through twelfth grade classrooms | 01/14/14 |
| HB 4146 | Creating the Governor's Committee on School Board Unification | 01/14/14 |
| HB 4160 | Reducing the amount deducted as an allowance for usual losses in collections for purposes of calculating local share | 01/14/14 |
| HB 4195 | Reducing the daily administrative time required of counselors | 01/16/14 |
| HB 4230 | Relating to the secondary schools athletic commission | 01/20/14 |
| HB 4232 | Relating to minimum salary supplement and educational expense reimbursement for professional personnel | 01/20/14 |
| HB 4261 | Relating to teacher and school service personnel salary increases | 01/22/14 |
| HB 4269 | Creating a Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Children within the Center for Professional Development | 01/23/14 |
| HB 4276 | Providing a credit against personal income tax for classroom teachers for nonreimbursed costs of supplies | 01/23/14 |
| HB 4281 | Relating to education reform | 01/23/14 |
| HB 4326 | Relating to nursing education faculty | 01/24/14 |
| HB 4381 | Establishing a four year pilot program to have social workers in public schools, from prekindergarten through the elementary school | 01/31/14 |
| HB 4383 | Relating to public school curricular standards and assessments | 01/31/14 |
| HB 4390 | Improving the education of West Virginia children by developing better education standards | 02/03/14 |
| HB 4404 | Permitting a salary increase for certain kindergarten aides and early childhood classroom assistant teachers | 02/04/14 |
| HB 4420 | Renaming the administrative heads of the Potomac campus of West Virginia University and the West Virginia University Institute of Technology | 02/06/14 |
| HB 4441 | Relating to dangerous weapons | 02/07/14 |
| HB 4444 | Increasing pay to teachers and service personnel by one percent a year, for three years | 02/07/14 |
| HB 4458 | Establishing the Tax Reduction Fund in the State Treasury | 02/11/14 |
| HB 4475 | Relating generally to higher education capital spending projects | 02/11/14 |
| HB 4482 | Relating to qualifications to practice speech-language pathology in public schools | 02/18/14 |
| HB 4484 | Establishing a maximum ratio of the number of employees of the West Virginia Department of Education to the number of students enrolled | 02/12/14 |
| HB 4495 | Authorizing the election of and specifying qualifications for nonappointed members of the West Virginia Board of Education | 02/13/14 |
| HB 4513 | Creating the College Degree Attainment Act | 02/13/14 |
| HB 4516 | Relating to multicounty regional educational service agencies | 02/13/14 |
| HB 4535 | Removing the requirement that home schooled students have to acquire a general equivalency degree (GED) in order to qualify for the promise scholarship | 02/14/14 |
| HB 4548 | Relating to requirements for PROMISE scholarships | 02/14/14 |
| HB 4568 | Relating to public higher education personnel | 02/17/14 |
| HB 4582 | Relating to required physical education and program in physical fitness in the public schools | 02/17/14 |
| HB 4597 | Relating to the State Board of Education | 02/17/14 |
| HB 4612 | Providing that recess periods or other such time allocated for student physical activity during the regular class day may not be reduced | 02/17/14 |