Bill Status - 2018 Regular Session
Committee Activity
109 Bills Pending in Committee — House Education
| Bill | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| SB 284 | Increasing access to career education and workforce training | 01/31/18 |
| SB 507 | Establishing Katherine Johnson Academy as magnet school programs at WV colleges and universities | 02/28/18 |
| SB 573 | Relating generally to school calendars | 02/27/18 |
| HB 2014 | Allowing parents or the school to serve sweets during the holidays if the school receives parental or guardian consent | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2015 | Establishing seniority rights for public employees | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2031 | Eliminating requirements that state provide for professional training and development of teachers | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2046 | Requiring county boards of education to provide released time for professional educators and service personnel when serving in an elected municipal or county office | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2056 | Providing for the use of neck braces by football players | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2073 | Making available elective courses on the history of the old and new testaments of the bible | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2075 | Providing the Auditor with greater oversight of advance allowance accounts | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2093 | Exempting personal income earned by individuals working as teachers at primary and secondary schools from personal income tax | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2094 | Home Instruction Tax Relief Act | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2104 | Requiring that public schools provide facilities for students of all faiths and religions to have a place of fellowship, prayer and worship | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2108 | Requiring school bus aides, who are trained in preventing bullying and providing a safe environment for students while being transported on a school bus, to be present on school buses | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2117 | Removing the requirement that home schooled students have to acquire a general equivalency degree (GED) in order to qualify for the promise scholarship | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2123 | Making the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and Blind eligible to participate in any and all funding administered or distributed by the West Virginia School Building Authority | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2142 | Providing a salary increase for special education teachers | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2144 | Relating to relocation or closure of state higher education institutions | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2148 | Providing taxpayers repaying their own student loans a modification reducing federal adjusted gross in the amount of the interest paid | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2157 | Relating to school calendar | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2166 | Requiring county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2172 | Providing that school nutrition plans include take home meals for low income students | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2174 | Granting all public employees, all teachers, all service employees, all public employee retirees, all teacher retirees and all service employee retirees a $1,000 per year permanent pay increase | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2191 | Relating to educational benefits for dependents of deceased or disabled veterans | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2194 | Reducing personnel employed by the West Virginia Department of Education | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2198 | Redirecting certain funds of the West Virginia Department of Education | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2210 | Increasing pay to teachers and service personnel | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2211 | Increasing salaries for teachers | 02/02/18 |
| HB 2213 | Relating to compulsory school attendance | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2214 | West Virginia Educational Restoration Act | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2309 | Discontinuing the use of common core standards and assessments in the state | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2334 | Relating to school curricular standards and assessments | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2335 | Protecting academic freedom in higher education | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2336 | Reducing the number of pupils per school nurses | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2368 | Relating to candidates for professional employee positions involving supervision of a county transportation department | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2374 | Requiring schools post signs displaying the Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2378 | Providing school days to register and transport students to vote | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2403 | Permitting county boards of education to accumulate instructional days and use them when needed | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2429 | Granting tax credits for parents and legal guardians whose children are in a home schooling program or private school | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2436 | Suspending the implementation of the school aid formula until the year 2021 | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2443 | Establishing academic standards and assessment methods | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2462 | Relating to the compensation of personnel employed at the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2524 | Improving the focus on school-level continuous improvement processes | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2543 | Preventing the State Board of Education from implementing common core academic standards and assessments | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2557 | Relating to tuition and fees at community and technical colleges | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2571 | Developing a resource for use by parents to monitor and track deaf and hard-of-hearing children’s expressive and receptive language acquisition | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2572 | Providing for the authorization and oversight of public charter schools | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2633 | Requiring state institutions of higher education to conduct Phase 3 clinical research studies for any cancer treatment | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2695 | Creating a pilot program for expansion of school-based mental health and school-based diversion | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2713 | Permitting the carrying of concealed weapons on the campus of a state institution of higher education | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2714 | Permitting a firearm or other deadly weapon on or in a private primary or secondary education building, structure or facility | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2742 | School Consolidation Task Force | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2756 | Making Promise scholarships available for students pursuing certificates or degrees through an accredited community and technical college | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2761 | Relating to qualifications of paraprofessionals, autism mentors and braille or sign support specialists | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2787 | Creating an additional class of special education classroom aides | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2795 | Clarifying a director of a multicounty vocational technical school is a principal | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2818 | Prohibiting West Virginia institutions of higher learning and state agencies from discriminating against graduates of private, nonpublic or home schools by requiring them to submit to alternative testing | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2825 | Requiring state institutions of higher education adopt policies concerning sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence and stalking | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2849 | Providing that the compensation level of the Chancellor for Higher Education may be no more than the salary of the Governor | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2853 | Relating to more equitable disbursement of funds to county boards | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2858 | Creating a loan tuition forgiveness program to encourage students in selected and necessary fields to remain in the state | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2862 | Establishing the “Stay in State” tax credit | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2885 | Relating to designation of social workers in the Department of Health and Human Services | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2902 | Requiring county school boards to provide adequate mental health and counseling services | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2926 | Relating to the comprehensive statewide student assessment | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2974 | Relating to public school education in dating violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence prevention | 01/10/18 |
| HB 2997 | Relating generally to applied associate of science degrees that target workforce needs | 01/10/18 |
| HB 3001 | Abolishing the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission | 01/10/18 |
| HB 3006 | Exempting certain contracts between the Department of Health and Human Resources and West Virginia University, Marshall University or the School for Osteopathic Medicine from state purchasing requirements | 01/10/18 |
| HB 3008 | Relating to eliminating county school systems and creating ten school districts | 01/10/18 |
| HB 3023 | Relating to public school education assessment of students for dyslexia and dyscalculia | 01/10/18 |
| HB 3031 | Creating a state program allowing high school students advance to getting a college degree or technical training while in high school | 01/10/18 |
| HB 3036 | Allowing county boards of education to hire retired teachers | 01/10/18 |
| HB 3056 | Relating to Promise scholarship program requirements for home schooled students | 01/10/18 |
| HB 4007 | Allowing home-schooled students to participate in secondary school extracurricular activities | 01/12/18 |
| HB 4008 | Education Savings Account Act | 01/12/18 |
| HB 4037 | Expiring the PROMISE Scholarship Program, and establishing the Promise for All Scholarship Program | 01/12/18 |
| HB 4139 | Specifying the conditions where and by whom it is unlawful to possess a firearm at school-sponsored functions | 01/16/18 |
| HB 4203 | Campus Free Speech Act | 01/19/18 |
| HB 4206 | Revising pupil to teacher ratio for elementary schools | 01/19/18 |
| HB 4211 | Increasing penalties for public school employees that embezzle public funds | 01/19/18 |
| HB 4216 | Revising the order in which qualified applicants are considered for service personnel employment by county boards of education | 01/19/18 |
| HB 4225 | Eliminating the written consent requirement for relegating any condition of employment for service personnel | 01/19/18 |
| HB 4226 | Eliminating the competency testing requirement for school service personnel | 01/19/18 |
| HB 4231 | Eliminating the requirement to pay service personnel for at least a full day of work when he or she has worked more than three and one-half hours on any Saturday or Sunday | 01/19/18 |
| HB 4243 | Requiring county boards of education to conduct regular structural inspections of school facilities and structures | 01/22/18 |
| HB 4244 | Granting business tax credits to businesses that financially support students enrolled in the state’s community and technical colleges | 01/22/18 |
| HB 4248 | Permitting vocational education classes for homeschooled and private schooled students | 01/22/18 |
| HB 4249 | Allowing private entities to lease buildings to local school boards in cases of emergency or condemnation | 01/22/18 |
| HB 4250 | Creating a digital learning pilot project | 01/22/18 |
| HB 4255 | Requiring the state board of education to develop an elective course on Vocational Agriculture | 01/23/18 |
| HB 4259 | Providing information to high school students regarding career and technical educational opportunities | 01/23/18 |
| HB 4267 | Increasing access to career education and workforce training | 01/23/18 |
| HB 4277 | Allowing individuals who have completed home school to be eligible for the PROMISE scholarship | 01/24/18 |
| HB 4352 | Assisting county boards of education in converting their maintenance vehicles to compressed natural gas or propane | 01/30/18 |
| HB 4362 | Recognizing outstanding students who are top achievers in scholastic studies | 01/30/18 |
| HB 4371 | Prohibiting school employees from counseling, referring, transporting, or assisting any student to obtain an abortion | 01/31/18 |
| HB 4374 | Providing a mechanism for the independent evaluation of revenue estimates by West Virginia and Marshall Universities’ business colleges | 01/31/18 |
| HB 4398 | Specifying the grade point average required for student participation in interscholastic athletics at the high school level | 02/01/18 |
| HB 4430 | Creating a merit-based scholarship program for tuition and fee payments for certain students attending state community and technical college | 02/05/18 |
| HB 4466 | Expanding the amount of PROMISE scholarship funds awarded to persons majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics | 02/07/18 |
| HB 4469 | Increasing the salaries of public school teachers | 02/07/18 |
| HB 4520 | Requiring free feminine hygiene products in grades 6 through 12 | 02/13/18 |
| HB 4528 | Relating to transfers and enrollment policies for students in public schools | 02/13/18 |
| HB 4549 | Requiring school counselors in public schools to spend 100 percent of their time on comprehensive school counseling programs | 02/13/18 |
| HB 4564 | Assessing the college-and career-readiness of 11th and 12th grade students | 02/13/18 |
| HB 4577 | Relating to seniority rights and school consolidation | 02/13/18 |
| HB 4602 | Relating generally to school calendars | 02/13/18 |
| HB 4614 | Relating to education to children and adults housed in correctional facilities and regional jails | 02/13/18 |