Bill Status - 2020 Regular Session
Committee Activity
139 Bills Pending in Committee — House Education
| Bill | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| SB 38 | Requiring schools provide elective course on Hebrew Scriptures or Bible | 02/27/20 |
| SB 131 | Creating Tim Tebow Act | 02/12/20 |
| SB 297 | Requiring Board of Education create family and consumer sciences course | 01/24/20 |
| SB 702 | Designating specific grade levels in which nutrition and physical fitness programs are taught | 02/18/20 |
| HB 2002 | Education Savings Account Act | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2013 | Providing a bonus for teachers willing to teach in certain critical needs areas | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2021 | Relating to relocation or closure of state higher education institutions | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2022 | Permitting county boards of education to accumulate instructional days and use them when needed | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2032 | Permitting the carrying of concealed weapons on the campus of a state institution of higher education | 01/08/20 |
| 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 | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2037 | Creating an additional class of special education classroom aides | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2039 | Requiring county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2040 | Relating to qualifications of paraprofessionals, autism mentors and braille or sign support specialists | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2059 | Expanding the amount of PROMISE scholarship funds awarded to persons majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2065 | Expiring the PROMISE Scholarship Program, and establishing the Promise for All Scholarship Program | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2072 | Relating to tuition and fees at community and technical colleges | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2093 | Relating to seniority rights and school consolidation | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2098 | Home Instruction Tax Relief Act | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2122 | Relating to more equitable disbursement of funds to county boards | 01/08/20 |
| 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 | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2141 | Providing for the use of neck braces by football players | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2322 | Providing a salary increase for special education teachers | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2327 | Relating to public school education in dating violence, domestic abuse and sexual violence prevention | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2328 | Relating to designation of social workers in the Department of Health and Human Services | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2339 | Establishing the “Stay in State” tax credit | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2345 | Developing a resource for use by parents to monitor and track deaf and hard-of-hearing children’s receptive and expressive language | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2367 | Creating a state program allowing high school students advance to getting a college degree or technical training while in high school | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2368 | Relating to education to children and adults housed in correctional facilities and regional jails | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2370 | Exempting personal income earned by individuals working as teachers at primary and secondary schools from personal income tax | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2374 | Discontinuing the use of common core standards and assessments in the state | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2377 | Making Promise scholarships available for students pursuing certificates or degrees through an accredited community and technical college | 01/08/20 |
| 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 | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2395 | Providing school days to register and transport students to vote | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2425 | Defining a work day for school service personnel and removing a provision relating to employment of licensed practical nurses | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2432 | Electing members of county school boards on a nonpartisan basis in general elections | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2447 | Exempting certain kindergartens, preschools and school education programs that are operated by a private school from state licensure requirements | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2448 | Middle School Technical Education Program Act | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2457 | Educational Equality Act | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2520 | Relating to the Antihazing Law | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2549 | Relating to compulsory school attendance | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2551 | Requiring the State Board of Education to develop a method for funding student transportation costs as a stand-alone consideration | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2561 | Expanding the eligibility for service on county school boards | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2570 | Providing that schools be closed for two weeks during the holiday season preceding Christmas Day and following New Year’s Day | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2593 | Limiting the increase or decrease of state funding to a county board of education | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2606 | Requiring 30 minutes of unstructured play time daily for students in kindergarten through grade 5 | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2615 | Requiring the state board of education to develop an elective course on Vocational Agriculture | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2620 | Modifying the contact requirements with a student’s guardians upon accrual of unexcused absences | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2630 | Requiring each county school board to employ at least one full time school nurse | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2632 | Tim Tebow Act | 01/08/20 |
| 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 | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2713 | Expunging records of unsubstantiated complaints made by the Department of Health and Human Resources against teachers | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2742 | Making available elective courses on the history of the Old and New Testaments of the Bible | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2747 | Allowing parents or the school to serve sweets during the holidays if the school receives parental or guardian consent | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2758 | Establishing minimum numbers of school counselors | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2766 | Relating to a student not advancing to the next grade by teacher recommendation | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2778 | Providing that school nutrition plans include take home meals for low income students | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2824 | Relating to teacher to pupil ratio in grades first through third | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2842 | Increasing the amount that a faculty senate of a public school may allocate to a classroom teacher or librarian for academic materials | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2852 | Increasing the expenditure for academic materials, supplies, and equipment | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2859 | Authorizing certain teachers to use alternative teaching programs | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2860 | Relating to mandatory drug testing of all classes of employees in K through 12 schools | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2862 | Relating to the Underwood-Smith scholarship and loan assistance program and teacher scholarship and loan program | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2870 | Reducing the number of students and schools that a school nurse must serve | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2919 | Establishing an Education Employees Fund | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2938 | Relating to vocational and technical education programs | 01/08/20 |
| HB 2963 | Modifying the school calendar | 01/08/20 |
| HB 3006 | Providing school day to register and transport students to vote | 01/08/20 |
| HB 3009 | The Young Professional Tax Credits | 01/08/20 |
| HB 3013 | College Graduate Tax Credit | 01/08/20 |
| HB 3015 | West Virginia Residential Incentive Tax Credit Act | 01/08/20 |
| HB 3048 | Permitting adjunct professors to serve on the institutional governing boards | 01/08/20 |
| HB 3058 | Granting full time employees of county boards of education three months of paid leave following the birth of a child | 01/08/20 |
| HB 3063 | Relating to a home Instruction and private school tax credit | 01/08/20 |
| HB 3080 | Redirecting a percentage of any surplus to state institutions of higher education to restore their state allocation funding levels | 01/08/20 |
| HB 3114 | Eliminating the requirement that schools be closed on election days | 01/08/20 |
| HB 3118 | Relating to mandatory drug testing for state legislators and teachers | 01/08/20 |
| HB 3125 | Coordinating a plan to provide the first two years of post-secondary education for free | 01/08/20 |
| HB 3128 | Changing the recommended guidelines for full-day and half-day cooks to the minimum ratio of one cook for every 110 meals | 01/08/20 |
| HB 3130 | Creating three separate job titles for school bus operators | 01/08/20 |
| HB 4036 | Requiring the State Board of Education to develop curriculum content for a semester-long financial literacy course | 01/08/20 |
| HB 4084 | Relating to teacher salary enhancement | 01/10/20 |
| HB 4085 | Relating to PROMISE Scholarship Program requirements | 01/10/20 |
| HB 4105 | Requiring that public schools have full-time trainers on staff | 01/13/20 |
| HB 4115 | Requiring compulsory immunization of public school children | 01/13/20 |
| HB 4140 | Granting tax credits for parents and legal guardians whose children are in a home schooling program or private school | 01/13/20 |
| HB 4148 | Authorizing the suspension or dismissal of school personnel who retaliate against a student or parent who has made a complaint | 01/13/20 |
| HB 4153 | Forbidding displays relating to sexuality in public school facilities and forbidding the teaching of sexuality in public schools | 01/14/20 |
| HB 4183 | Relating to mandatory drug testing of all classes of employees in K through 12 schools | 01/14/20 |
| HB 4193 | Allowing private entities to lease buildings to local school boards in cases of emergency | 01/14/20 |
| HB 4366 | Changing the school aid formula allowances for instructional technology and for AP and dual credit courses | 01/16/20 |
| HB 4389 | Relating to transfer for program credits earned at two-year colleges or community and technical colleges | 01/16/20 |
| HB 4440 | Prohibiting the home schooling of children in certain circumstances | 01/21/20 |
| HB 4457 | Requiring air conditioning on all school buses | 01/22/20 |
| HB 4475 | Requiring the State Board of Education to provide for the routine education of all professional educators | 01/22/20 |
| HB 4483 | Establishing a higher education scholarship program for foster children | 01/23/20 |
| HB 4491 | Requiring the State Board of Education to provide for the routine education of all professional educators | 01/23/20 |
| HB 4492 | West Virginia Children's Vision Act | 01/23/20 |
| HB 4518 | Relating to minimum salaries for teachers | 01/23/20 |
| HB 4525 | Requiring the State Board of Education to provide for the routine education of all professional educators | 01/24/20 |
| HB 4538 | Modifying the definitions and pay grades of certain school cafeteria personnel | 01/24/20 |
| HB 4564 | Relating to participation in school sports | 01/28/20 |
| HB 4596 | Declaring a shortage of qualified bus operators and allowing retired bus operators to accept employment | 01/29/20 |
| HB 4597 | Creating a Campus Mentors pilot program | 01/29/20 |
| HB 4614 | Requiring seat belts on every new school bus | 01/30/20 |
| HB 4623 | Requiring all schools to instruct students on the Holocaust and other genocides | 01/31/20 |
| HB 4636 | Expanding tuition and fee waivers or adjustments for senior citizens | 01/31/20 |
| HB 4656 | Requiring test in civics to graduate high school or obtain GED | 02/03/20 |
| HB 4659 | Relating to the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission | 02/03/20 |
| HB 4676 | West Virginia Saving Money and Reducing Time Prize Program | 02/04/20 |
| HB 4677 | Making public school teachers state employees | 02/04/20 |
| HB 4681 | Requiring schools to offer elective vocational courses in middle schools | 02/04/20 |
| HB 4692 | Relating to calculation of the school aid formula based on net enrollment | 02/05/20 |
| HB 4712 | Consolidating the 55 county school boards into 10 district school boards | 02/06/20 |
| HB 4719 | Increasing the number of days a retired teacher may accept employment | 02/06/20 |
| HB 4724 | Providing a tax credit to encourage new teachers to remain in the state | 02/06/20 |
| HB 4740 | Designating social workers in the DHHR to help improve or maintain school attendance and performance, health and well-being | 02/07/20 |
| HB 4745 | Replacing minimum minutes of instructional time required per day with a requirement for an average of five hours per day | 02/07/20 |
| HB 4750 | Katherine Johnson College Award Program | 02/07/20 |
| HB 4755 | Requiring a vote on school closure or consolidation in certain circumstances | 02/07/20 |
| HB 4771 | Requiring "Mine War History Day" be observed in schools every year | 02/10/20 |
| HB 4785 | Providing school days to register and transport students to vote | 02/10/20 |
| HB 4788 | Requiring that no later than July 1, 2020, credits earned at two-year colleges transfer for credit at any other state institution of higher education | 02/10/20 |
| HB 4825 | Requiring students to compete only against students of the same biological gender | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4836 | Adopting and implementing a "Heat and Humidity Practice Policy" for all interscholastic athletic events | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4841 | Relating to public school faculty senates | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4849 | Establishing a matrix necessary for an institution of higher education to become exempt from the Higher Education Policy Commission | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4876 | Updating the definition of "exempt schools" | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4879 | Granting jurisdiction to supervise youth sport league events to county boards of education and the Secondary School Activities Commission | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4890 | Relating to the removal of standardized testing in public schools | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4902 | Requiring higher education institutions to adopt policies and programs relating to sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4914 | Providing pay raises to public school teachers | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4917 | Changing student to school nurse staffing ratios | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4921 | Authorizing student athletes to be compensated for use of their name, image or likeness | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4923 | Establishing a ratio of one counselor for every 250 students | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4937 | Relating to home school students | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4941 | Providing a credit against personal income tax for classroom teachers for nonreimbursed costs of supplies | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4942 | Establishing that the educational instructional term for students shall begin no earlier than Labor Day | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4943 | Establishing matrix necessary for an institution of higher education to become exempt from the Higher Education Policy Commission | 02/11/20 |
| HB 4950 | Requiring county boards of education to provide one social worker for each 1000 students | 02/11/20 |