Bill Status - 2023 Regular Session
Committee Activity
145 Bills Pending in Committee — House Education
| Bill | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| SB 124 | Authorizing child sexual abuse and sexual violence prevention program and in-service training in child sexual abuse prevention | 01/23/23 |
| SB 139 | Requiring each county BOE to ensure all its meetings are open to public through in-person attendance and broadcast live on its website | 01/16/23 |
| SB 145 | Allowing county BOE participating in operation of multicounty vocational center to withdraw | 01/16/23 |
| SB 222 | Creating adult education taskforce | 02/01/23 |
| SB 306 | Establishing Summer Feeding for All Program | 02/01/23 |
| SB 428 | Revising requirements of local school improvement councils | 02/01/23 |
| SB 619 | Allowing teachers in public schools to teach intelligent design | 02/27/23 |
| SB 628 | Revising provisions related to public charter schools | 02/28/23 |
| HB 2031 | Modifying the school calendar | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2034 | Relating to vocational and technical education programs | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2048 | Establishing the Katherine Johnson Academy | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2068 | Reducing federal adjusted gross income for interest paid on student loans | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2070 | Relating to vocational and technical education programs | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2077 | Gun carry allowed on college campuses | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2079 | Policy offering a housing credit for educators who live in West Virginia 5 or more years after becoming an educator in the state | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2087 | Authorizing children age 12 or older to referee youth sporting events | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2108 | Prohibit parents from being restricted from monitoring virtual public education classrooms | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2116 | Home Instruction Tax Relief Act | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2135 | Relating to pay for Board of Education members | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2148 | To dissolve the West Virginia School Building Authority | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2149 | Establishing the Katherine Johnson Academy | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2157 | Discontinuing the use of common core standards and assessments in the state | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2167 | Relating to calculating max number of students at alternative and year-round schools | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2180 | Relating to the creation and administration of a scholarship program for college students who remain in-state after graduation | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2182 | To acknowledge that the mental health of higher education students is of paramount importance, and due to a variety of issues | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2185 | Providing a tax credit to encourage new teachers to remain in the state | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2195 | To provide that third grade students be competent in reading and math before moving on to fourth grade | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2203 | Requiring State Board of Education to establish a Personal Finance Literacy pilot program to be implemented in at least five public high schools | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2206 | Provide programs to educate senior citizens | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2216 | Remove standardized testing in public and private schools | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2225 | Requiring each county school board to employ at least one full time school nurse | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2231 | Relating to teacher salary enhancement | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2241 | Relating to education to children and adults housed in correctional facilities and regional jails | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2242 | Requiring each high school student to complete a full credit course of study in personal finance | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2261 | Relating to the special community development school pilot program | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2270 | Exempting school buses with students on board from paying turnpike tolls | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2273 | Expanding the amount of promise scholarship funds awarded to persons majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2297 | Requiring all higher education institutions to use statewide contracts issued by the Purchasing Division | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2315 | Prohibiting the home schooling of children in certain circumstances | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2316 | Establishing the “Stay in State” tax credit | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2320 | Changing the recommended guidelines for full-day and half-day cooks to the minimum ratio of one cook for every 110 meals | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2334 | Remove homeschool testing and portfolio requirements | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2347 | Establishing the Anti-Stereotyping Act | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2350 | Granting full time employees of county boards of education three months of paid leave following the birth of a child | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2354 | Student Rescue Act | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2355 | Establishing a pilot program to develop school-based mental and behavioral health services | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2357 | Granting jurisdiction to supervise youth sport league events to county boards of education and the Secondary School Activities Commission | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2363 | To require a moment of silence at the beginning of school each day in the state | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2366 | Require cameras in all classrooms | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2381 | Establishing the behavioral health workforce education initiative at the Higher Education Policy Commission | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2382 | Relating to repealing school innovation zones provisions superseded by Innovation in Education Act | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2383 | Relating generally to school nurses | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2390 | The Forming Open and Robust University Minds (FORUM) Act | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2401 | Relating to relocation or closure of state higher education institutions | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2410 | Establish the Commission on American History Enrichment | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2411 | To establish cultural competency training for teachers obtaining or renewing a teaching license in West Virginia | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2421 | The Campus Self Defense Act | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2433 | Creating three separate job titles for school bus operators | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2434 | Modifying the definitions and pay grades of certain school cafeteria personnel | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2435 | To strengthen anti-hazing laws and policies for Pre-K to Grade 12 | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2452 | To allow parents to retain their child for an extra year of school without losing a year of sports eligibility | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2455 | Defining a work day for school service personnel and removing a provision relating to employment of licensed practical nurses | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2457 | Amend section providing for waiver of tuition and fees for older persons auditing certain college classes | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2458 | Relating to public school personnel | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2461 | Video and audio recordings in self-contained classrooms | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2463 | Allowing substitute teachers to work and not receive any deduction on their retirement over the 140-day of work | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2465 | Increase access to and amount covered of the promise scholarship to ensure full ride regardless of tuition costs, double majors, or courses of interest | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2470 | Creating a youth advisory council for civic engagement | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2487 | Relating to designation of social workers in the Department of Health and Human Services | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2488 | Providing school days to register and transport students to vote | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2494 | Requiring high school students to pass a test on the US Constitution to graduate from high school | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2495 | Allowing private school students to play public school sports in some instances | 01/11/23 |
| HB 2504 | Relating to PROMISE Scholarship Program requirements | 01/12/23 |
| HB 2505 | Creating the Supported Decision-Making Act | 01/12/23 |
| HB 2516 | Provide that coaching days do not count towards limit on days for retired employees | 01/12/23 |
| HB 2551 | Creating the Homeschool Credential Recognition Act | 01/13/23 |
| HB 2560 | To require cameras in every classroom and room where children are present | 01/16/23 |
| HB 2579 | Relating to the nonpartisan election of county superintendents of schools | 01/16/23 |
| HB 2580 | Requiring an annual test for students to advance to the next grade level | 01/16/23 |
| HB 2622 | Relating to no child in the State of West Virginia should be admitted into the general classroom of a public school in WV unless they can speak basic English and meet the same expectations of non-special education students who are native English speakers | 01/17/23 |
| HB 2624 | To implement trauma-informed practices in schools | 01/17/23 |
| HB 2633 | Relating to the Campus Self Defense Act | 01/17/23 |
| HB 2635 | Exempting personal income earned by individuals working as teachers at primary and secondary schools from personal income tax | 01/17/23 |
| HB 2636 | To provide that out of school suspensions be considered “excused” absences. | 01/17/23 |
| HB 2772 | Create the Statewide Online Education Act | 01/18/23 |
| HB 2773 | Create the Education Tax Credit | 01/18/23 |
| HB 2778 | To create curriculum transparency in public schools | 01/18/23 |
| HB 2797 | Providing that microschool tuition and fees are qualifying expenses for Hope Scholarship accounts | 01/18/23 |
| HB 2802 | Creating the Economic Development Tuition Waiver | 01/18/23 |
| HB 2807 | Creating the Virtual Public Schools Act | 01/19/23 |
| HB 2819 | To add State Fire Marshals to the statute to be included with law enforcement that receive information related to school safety requirements | 02/02/23 |
| HB 2824 | Relating to campus carry | 01/19/23 |
| HB 2834 | Amending the existing War Orphan program so children and spouses of deceased active-duty officers AND enlisted Service members would both be eligible for the War Orphan Education Program | 02/03/23 |
| HB 2863 | Creating a homeless education coordinator for county schools | 01/20/23 |
| HB 2901 | State may not participate in or join the national school board association | 01/23/23 |
| HB 2903 | Library boards who make decisions on books must have ideological equality | 01/23/23 |
| HB 2932 | Bill to fund armed veterans at our schools. | 01/23/23 |
| HB 2940 | Establishing the Anti-Stereotyping Act | 01/24/23 |
| HB 2947 | Relating to mandatory drug testing of all classes of employees in K through 12 schools | 01/24/23 |
| HB 2961 | Relating to abolishing the center for nursing and moving the functions to the Higher Education Policy Commission | 01/24/23 |
| HB 2997 | To make the HOPE Scholarship applicable to all children | 01/24/23 |
| HB 3001 | To prohibit punishment for teachers who refuse to use pronouns inconsistent with a child’s sex | 01/24/23 |
| HB 3019 | Relating to student suicide prevention | 01/25/23 |
| HB 3021 | Expanding early childhood education programs to three-year-old children | 01/25/23 |
| HB 3024 | Hunger-Free Campus Act | 01/25/23 |
| HB 3045 | Relating to Emergency Agriculture Certification | 01/25/23 |
| HB 3047 | Clarifying Classroom Overloads for Special Education | 01/25/23 |
| HB 3048 | Removal of Mandatory Homeschool Reporting | 01/25/23 |
| HB 3050 | Repeal Teacher Required CE | 01/25/23 |
| HB 3054 | Student Suicide Prevention - ID Cards | 01/25/23 |
| HB 3076 | Relating to hiring of therapists in schools | 01/26/23 |
| HB 3085 | Relating to hiring a “therapist” in WVDE | 01/26/23 |
| HB 3099 | To establish a grant program for colleges that take steps to establish themselves as Student Basic Needs campuses | 01/27/23 |
| HB 3105 | Requiring Director of transportation have 2 years experience for bus operator | 01/27/23 |
| HB 3117 | Remove assessments for homeschoolers | 01/27/23 |
| HB 3144 | No vaccine mandate for schools | 01/30/23 |
| HB 3155 | Providing educational benefits to veterans who commit to WV residency | 01/30/23 |
| HB 3176 | Prohibit drag shows from being performed in front of minors and to prohibit people from dressing in drag when reading aloud during story time in schools. | 01/31/23 |
| HB 3213 | Providing that Homeschooled Students be eligible to participate in public school extracurricular activities | 02/02/23 |
| HB 3222 | Direct Foundation Funding Act | 02/02/23 |
| HB 3228 | Heart Health Equity Inclusion | 02/02/23 |
| HB 3259 | Exempting county school buses from paying the toll fees | 02/03/23 |
| HB 3263 | Provide for statewide participation in the federal Community Eligibility Provision for its duration | 02/03/23 |
| HB 3269 | To require a semester of personal finance to be taught in high school as a prerequisite for graduation | 02/03/23 |
| HB 3276 | Relating to requiring video cameras in certain special education classrooms | 02/03/23 |
| HB 3285 | Relating to standardized test reporting exemptions for contingencies | 02/03/23 |
| HB 3296 | Provide for statewide participation in the federal Community Eligibility Provision for its duration | 02/06/23 |
| HB 3343 | To require for the demolition of old schools in certain circumstances | 02/08/23 |
| HB 3348 | To allow for the construction of safe entry ways to all public schools in West Virginia. | 02/08/23 |
| HB 3373 | To recognize school social workers as having the same status and funding as school counselors | 02/13/23 |
| HB 3374 | Relating generally to waivers from tuition and other costs and fees for certain resident veterans and their resident dependents | 02/13/23 |
| HB 3375 | Relating to addressing School Discipline in Public Schools | 02/13/23 |
| HB 3390 | Relating to the Antihazing Law | 02/13/23 |
| HB 3410 | To allow public high schools to have full time athletic trainers | 02/13/23 |
| HB 3411 | To create an initiative to provide minorities and males with an incentive to join the public education field | 02/13/23 |
| HB 3413 | To increase the 35 year limit on interval pay raises to 40 years | 02/13/23 |
| HB 3414 | Limiting recovery on claims for abuse in the State’s school system | 02/13/23 |
| HB 3416 | To increase the minimum starting salary for a teacher to $50,000 | 02/13/23 |
| HB 3429 | Relating to eligibility requirements for student transfers to a public school for WVSSAC sanctioned sports | 02/13/23 |
| HB 3447 | Relating to weighting final semester examinations | 02/14/23 |
| HB 3462 | Relating generally to identifying and educating exceptional children exhibiting indicators or diagnosed with dyslexia or dyscalculia | 02/14/23 |
| HB 3468 | To set the school calendar to 175 days of instruction to provide for 5 days of professional development | 02/14/23 |
| HB 3503 | Relating to nondiscrimination at institutions of higher education | 02/14/23 |
| HB 3532 | Creating a Meat Cutting and Processing Program | 02/14/23 |
| HB 3543 | Relating to WV Secondary School Activities | 02/14/23 |