Senate Bill No. 157
(By Senators Hunter, Mitchell, Caldwell, Kessler, Ross, Oliverio
and Rowe)
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[Introduced February 16, 2001; referred to the Committee on
Education.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact section one, article one, chapter
eighteen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine
hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to providing a
definition of social worker.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section one, article one, chapter eighteen of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 1. DEFINITIONS; LIMITATIONS OF CHAPTER; GOALS FOR
EDUCATION.
§18-1-1. Definitions.
The following words used in this chapter and in any
proceedings pursuant thereto shall, unless the context clearly
indicates a different meaning, be construed as follows:
(a) "School" means the pupils and teacher or teachers
assembled in one or more buildings, organized as a unit;
(b) "District" means county school district;
(c) "State board" means the West Virginia board of education;
(d) "Board" means the county board of education;
(e) "State superintendent" means the state superintendent of
free schools;
(f) "Superintendent" means the county superintendent of
schools;
(g) "Teacher" means teacher, supervisor, principal,
superintendent or public school librarian; registered professional
nurse, licensed by the West Virginia board of examiners for
registered professional nurses and employed by a county board of
education, who has a baccalaureate degree; or any other person
regularly employed for instructional purposes in a public school in
this state;
(h) "Service personnel" means all nonteaching school employees
not included in the above definition of "teacher";
(i) "Social worker" means a nonteaching school employee who,
at a minimum, possesses an undergraduate degree in social work from
an accredited institution of higher learning and who provides
various professional services, activities or methods for the
benefit of students which are concretely concerned with the
investigation, treatment and material aid of the economically
underprivileged and the socially maladjusted.
(i) (j) "Regular full-time employee" means any person employed
by a county board of education who has a regular position or job
throughout his or her employment term, without regard to hours or
method of pay;
(j) (k) "Career clusters" means broad groupings of related
occupations;
(k) (l) "Work-based learning" means a structured activity that
correlates with and is mutually supportive of the school-based
learning of the student and includes specific objectives to be
learned by the student as a result of the activity;
(l) (m) "School-age juvenile" means any individual who is
entitled to attend or who, if not placed in a residential facility,
would be entitled to attend public schools in accordance with: (1)
Section five, article two of this chapter; (2) sections fifteen and eighteen, article five of this chapter; or (3) section one, article
twenty of this chapter;
(m) (n) "Student with a disability" means an exceptional
child, other than gifted, pursuant to section one, article twenty
of this chapter;
(n) (o) "Low density county" means a county whose ratio of
student population to square miles is less than or equal to the
state average ratio as computed by the state department of
education;
(o) (p) "High density county" means a county whose ratio of
student population to square miles is greater than the state
average ratio as computed by the state department of education; and
(p) (q) "Casual deficit" means a deficit of not more than 3
percent of the approved levy estimate or a deficit that is
nonrecurring from year to year.
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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide a definition
of "social worker" for purposes of the school system.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.)