Bill Status - 2019 Regular Session
Committee Activity
111 Bills Pending in Committee — House Education
| Bill | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| SB 86 | Requiring county boards provide free feminine hygiene products in grades five to 12 | 02/25/19 |
| SB 379 | Permitting county board of education to include faith-based electives in drug prevention programs | 02/28/19 |
| SB 555 | Relating to authority of Higher Education Policy Commission | 02/28/19 |
| HB 2002 | Education Savings Account Act | 01/11/19 |
| HB 2013 | Providing a bonus for teachers willing to teach in certain critical needs areas | 01/24/19 |
| HB 2021 | Relating to relocation or closure of state higher education institutions | 01/09/19 |
| HB 2022 | Permitting county boards of education to accumulate instructional days and use them when needed | 01/09/19 |
| HB 2032 | Permitting the carrying of concealed weapons on the campus of a state institution of higher education | 01/09/19 |
| HB 2034 | 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 | 01/09/19 |
| HB 2037 | Creating an additional class of special education classroom aides | 01/09/19 |
| HB 2039 | Requiring county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school | 01/09/19 |
| HB 2040 | Relating to qualifications of paraprofessionals, autism mentors and braille or sign support specialists | 01/09/19 |
| HB 2042 | Specifying the grade point average required for student participation in interscholastic athletics at the high school level | 01/09/19 |
| HB 2059 | Expanding the amount of PROMISE scholarship funds awarded to persons majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics | 01/09/19 |
| HB 2065 | Expiring the PROMISE Scholarship Program, and establishing the Promise for All Scholarship Program | 01/09/19 |
| HB 2072 | Relating to tuition and fees at community and technical colleges | 01/09/19 |
| HB 2093 | Relating to seniority rights and school consolidation | 01/09/19 |
| HB 2098 | Home Instruction Tax Relief Act | 01/09/19 |
| HB 2100 | Establishing a pilot program to develop school-based mental and behavioral health services | 02/13/19 |
| HB 2122 | Relating to more equitable disbursement of funds to county boards | 01/09/19 |
| HB 2126 | Requiring county boards of education to provide released time for professional educators and service personnel when serving in an elected municipal or county office | 01/09/19 |
| HB 2141 | Providing for the use of neck braces by football players | 01/09/19 |
| HB 2146 | Creating a loan tuition forgiveness program to encourage students in selected and necessary fields to remain in the state | 01/09/19 |
| HB 2205 | Developing a resource for use by parents to monitor and track deaf and hard-of-hearing children’s expressive and receptive language acquisition | 01/10/19 |
| HB 2226 | Providing taxpayers repaying their own student loans a modification reducing federal adjusted gross in the amount of the interest paid | 01/10/19 |
| HB 2322 | Providing a salary increase for special education teachers | 01/11/19 |
| HB 2327 | Relating to public school education in dating violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence prevention | 01/11/19 |
| HB 2328 | Relating to designation of social workers in the Department of Health and Human Services | 01/11/19 |
| HB 2339 | Establishing the “Stay in State” tax credit | 01/11/19 |
| HB 2345 | Developing a resource for use by parents to monitor and track deaf and hard-of-hearing children’s receptive and expressive language | 01/11/19 |
| HB 2367 | Creating a state program allowing high school students advance to getting a college degree or technical training while in high school | 01/14/19 |
| HB 2368 | Relating to education to children and adults housed in correctional facilities and regional jails | 01/14/19 |
| HB 2370 | Exempting personal income earned by individuals working as teachers at primary and secondary schools from personal income tax | 01/14/19 |
| HB 2374 | Discontinuing the use of common core standards and assessments in the state | 01/14/19 |
| HB 2377 | Making Promise scholarships available for students pursuing certificates or degrees through an accredited community and technical college | 01/14/19 |
| HB 2381 | 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 | 01/14/19 |
| HB 2391 | Requiring school counselors in public schools to spend 100 percent of their time on comprehensive school counseling programs | 01/14/19 |
| HB 2395 | Providing school days to register and transport students to vote | 01/14/19 |
| HB 2425 | Defining a work day for school service personnel and removing a provision relating to employment of licensed practical nurses | 01/15/19 |
| HB 2432 | Electing members of county school boards on a nonpartisan basis in general elections | 01/15/19 |
| HB 2447 | Exempting certain kindergartens, preschools and school education programs that are operated by a private school from state licensure requirements | 01/16/19 |
| HB 2448 | Middle School Technical Education Program Act | 01/16/19 |
| HB 2449 | WV Invests Grant Program | 01/16/19 |
| HB 2450 | Increasing access to career education and workforce training | 01/16/19 |
| HB 2451 | Katherine Johnson Hope Scholarship Act | 01/16/19 |
| HB 2457 | Educational Equality Act | 01/16/19 |
| HB 2464 | Requiring free feminine hygiene products in grades 6 through 12 | 01/16/19 |
| HB 2470 | Allowing public school education or employer-sponsored training programs to count towards occupational certification and/or licensure | 01/23/19 |
| HB 2483 | Relating to incentives for mathematics teachers | 01/17/19 |
| HB 2513 | Relating to campus police officers of state institutions of higher learning | 01/18/19 |
| HB 2520 | Relating to the Antihazing Law | 01/18/19 |
| HB 2539 | Allowing private entities to lease buildings to local school boards in cases of emergency or condemnation | 01/21/19 |
| HB 2549 | Relating to compulsory school attendance | 01/21/19 |
| HB 2561 | Expanding the eligibility for service on county school boards | 01/21/19 |
| HB 2570 | Providing that schools be closed for two weeks during the holiday season preceding Christmas Day and following New Year’s Day | 01/21/19 |
| HB 2586 | Providing programs to train firefighters and emergency medical technicians | 02/12/19 |
| HB 2593 | Limiting the increase or decrease of state funding to a county board of education | 01/22/19 |
| HB 2606 | Requiring 30 minutes of unstructured play time daily for students in kindergarten through grade 5 | 01/22/19 |
| HB 2615 | Requiring the state board of education to develop an elective course on Vocational Agriculture | 01/23/19 |
| HB 2630 | Requiring each county school board to employ at least one full time school nurse | 01/24/19 |
| HB 2632 | Tim Tebow Act | 01/24/19 |
| HB 2634 | 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 | 01/24/19 |
| HB 2635 | 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 | 01/24/19 |
| HB 2639 | Placing a limit on the salary of a county superintendent of schools | 01/24/19 |
| HB 2713 | Expunging records of unsubstantiated complaints made by the Department of Health and Human Resources against teachers | 01/29/19 |
| HB 2721 | Relating to the compensation of personnel employed at the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind | 01/29/19 |
| HB 2742 | Making available elective courses on the history of the Old and New Testaments of the Bible | 01/30/19 |
| HB 2747 | Allowing parents or the school to serve sweets during the holidays if the school receives parental or guardian consent | 01/30/19 |
| HB 2758 | Establishing minimum numbers of school counselors | 01/30/19 |
| HB 2766 | Relating to a student not advancing to the next grade by teacher recommendation | 01/30/19 |
| HB 2775 | Requiring each high school student to complete a one-half credit course of study in personal finance | 01/30/19 |
| HB 2777 | Requiring schools to offer elective vocational courses in middle schools | 01/30/19 |
| HB 2778 | Providing that school nutrition plans include take home meals for low income students | 01/30/19 |
| HB 2787 | Requiring schools to have persons with first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation training on-site | 01/31/19 |
| HB 2794 | Establishing the Summer Feeding for All initiative | 01/31/19 |
| HB 2799 | Requiring county boards of education to conduct regular structural inspections of school facilities and structures | 02/01/19 |
| HB 2800 | Permitting vocational education classes for homeschooled and private schooled students | 02/01/19 |
| HB 2805 | Relating to persons to whom schools are open | 02/01/19 |
| HB 2824 | Relating to teacher to pupil ratio in grades first through third | 02/01/19 |
| HB 2826 | Altering the school calendar to begin the Tuesday after Labor Day and end the Friday before Memorial Day | 02/01/19 |
| HB 2842 | Increasing the amount that a faculty senate of a public school may allocate to a classroom teacher or librarian for academic materials | 02/04/19 |
| HB 2852 | Increasing the expenditure for academic materials, supplies, and equipment | 02/06/19 |
| HB 2859 | Authorizing certain teachers to use alternative teaching programs | 02/06/19 |
| HB 2860 | Relating to mandatory drug testing of all classes of employees in K through 12 schools | 02/06/19 |
| HB 2862 | Relating to the Underwood-Smith scholarship and loan assistance program and teacher scholarship and loan program | 02/06/19 |
| HB 2870 | Reducing the number of students and schools that a school nurse must serve | 02/06/19 |
| HB 2874 | Increasing annual compensation for the West Virginia State Police, public school teachers, and school service personnel | 02/06/19 |
| HB 2913 | Relating to language development milestones | 02/07/19 |
| HB 2917 | Relating to classroom teachers retaining seniority | 02/08/19 |
| HB 2919 | Establishing an Education Employees Fund | 02/08/19 |
| HB 2921 | Extending period in which county boards of education may hire certified, retired teachers in areas of critical shortages of certified teachers | 02/08/19 |
| HB 2938 | Relating to vocational and technical education programs | 02/08/19 |
| HB 2952 | Reducing the personnel of the State Department of Education | 02/11/19 |
| HB 2963 | Modifying the school calendar | 02/11/19 |
| HB 2965 | Providing that schools that do not follow protocol on head injuries in interscholastic athletes are subject to disciplinary actions | 02/11/19 |
| HB 2994 | Requiring cursive writing to be taught in grades K-5 | 02/12/19 |
| HB 3006 | Providing school day to register and transport students to vote | 02/12/19 |
| HB 3009 | The Young Professional Tax Credits | 02/12/19 |
| HB 3013 | College Graduate Tax Credit | 02/12/19 |
| HB 3015 | West Virginia Residential Incentive Tax Credit Act | 02/12/19 |
| HB 3048 | Permitting adjunct professors to serve on the institutional governing boards | 02/12/19 |
| HB 3058 | Granting full time employees of county boards of education three months of paid leave following the birth of a child | 02/12/19 |
| HB 3080 | Redirecting a percentage of any surplus to state institutions of higher education to restore their state allocation funding levels | 02/12/19 |
| HB 3090 | Relating to employment, promotion and transfer of professional personnel by county boards of education | 02/12/19 |
| HB 3096 | Relating to four-year higher education | 02/12/19 |
| HB 3113 | Directing county school boards to construct covered bus stops | 02/12/19 |
| HB 3114 | Eliminating the requirement that schools be closed on election days | 02/12/19 |
| HB 3118 | Relating to mandatory drug testing for state legislators and teachers | 02/12/19 |
| HB 3122 | Requiring state institutions of higher education adopt policies and programs relating to sexual assault, domestic violence, and stalking | 02/12/19 |
| HB 3125 | Coordinating a plan to provide the first two years of post-secondary education for free | 02/12/19 |
| HB 3130 | Creating three separate job titles for school bus operators | 02/12/19 |