Bill Status - 2008 Regular Session
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There are 119 bill(s) regarding Education (And Related Subheadings)
| Bill | Title | Status | Committee | Step | Last Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SB 4 | Requiring Legislative Auditor evaluate Secondary Schools Activities Commission | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| SB 6 | Providing county boards of education members per diem for mandatory education | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| SB 9 | Permitting hunter safety program in public schools | Signed | Governor | 04/08/08 | |
| SB 10 | Providing tax deduction on interest paid on student and automobile loans | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| SB 19 | Revising immunizations requirements for school children | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| SB 37 | Relating to sale of beverages in public schools | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| SB 57 | Allowing county boards of education to enter into certain lease-purchase agreements | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 01/23/08 |
| SB 65 | Establishing school uniforms incentive plan pilot program | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/27/08 |
| SB 90 | Exempting certain insurance agents from continuing education requirement | Pending | Senate Banking and Insurance | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| SB 91 | Reducing ratio of school nurses to school children | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| SB 99 | Allocating funding for transporting students to certain activities | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| SB 132 | Requiring principals take responsibility and control over teacher's classroom performance | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| SB 153 | Creating GED incentives | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/10/08 |
| SB 156 | Providing tuition waivers for children and spouses of certain National Guard and active duty military personnel | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/21/08 |
| SB 174 | Removing scholarship funds' cap for dependent children of deceased State Police | Pending | Senate Pensions | Committee | 01/10/08 |
| SB 191 | Allowing districts' certain substitute teacher hiring flexibility in critical need areas | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/10/08 |
| SB 192 | Allowing county school boards' substitute service personnel placement flexibility | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/10/08 |
| SB 194 | Providing electronic instructional materials to certain students | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/26/08 |
| SB 199 | Rescinding student financial assistance due to certain alcohol violations | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/10/08 |
| SB 205 | Establishing driver's license denial or suspension for students who fail or withdraw from school | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/10/08 |
| SB 222 | Permitting only healthy beverages and snacks in schools | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 01/16/08 |
| SB 264 | Authorizing job-related training reimbursement for certain state employees | Pending | Senate Government Organization | Committee | 01/18/08 |
| SB 269 | Authorizing certain tax credit for new teachers in critical needs areas | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/15/08 |
| SB 297 | Authorizing School Building Authority to issue revenue bonds from State Excess Lottery Fund | Signed | Governor | 04/08/08 | |
| SB 314 | Requiring certain public notice of school cancellation or delay | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 01/23/08 |
| SB 459 | Authorizing rules of School Building Authority and Higher Education Policy Commission | Signed | Governor | 04/08/08 | |
| SB 569 | Relating to compulsory school attendance directors | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/05/08 |
| SB 594 | Establishing Bill of Rights and Responsibilities for Students and School Personnel | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 03/06/08 |
| SB 595 | Establishing education goals and objectives for 2020 | Signed | Governor | 04/08/08 | |
| SB 606 | Requiring hiring preference for summer school program positions | Vetoed | Governor | 03/16/08 | |
| SB 607 | Relating to teachers' professional development and preparation days | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/15/08 |
| SB 610 | Eliminating Saturday school prohibition | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/13/08 |
| SB 611 | Relating to teachers' alternative education | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/27/08 |
| SB 624 | Limiting certain paraprofessionals' and interpreters' transfers | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/08/08 |
| SB 625 | Requiring school principal make personnel recommendations | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/20/08 |
| SB 635 | Authorizing State Board of Education to set and collect review fees from certain publishers | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/20/08 |
| SB 646 | Relating to certain teachers' sanctions | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/12/08 |
| SB 675 | Requiring boards of education hire best qualified candidate for extracurricular activities | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/15/08 |
| SB 681 | Creating Beckley-Raleigh County Building Code Authority | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 02/28/08 |
| SB 688 | Requiring athletic trainers' presence at certain school games | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/18/08 |
| SB 690 | Allowing teachers to determine what classroom material may be posted on internet | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/18/08 |
| SB 717 | Creating State Police Higher Education Security Act | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/18/08 |
| SB 725 | Relating to beverage sales in schools | Pending | Senate Health and Human Resources | Committee | 02/18/08 |
| SB 743 | Leasing school buses for voter transportation | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/18/08 |
| SB 750 | Relating to continuing education requirements for insurance producers | Pending | House Banking and Insurance | Committee | 02/27/08 |
| SB 761 | Modifying ISE schedule | Pending | Senate Education | Committee | 02/18/08 |
| HB 2063 | Prohibiting individual county board of education members from acting on behalf of the board in an individual capacity unless authorized by law | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2076 | Increasing the foundation allowances for professional educators to fifty-five and service personnel to thirty-seven for each one thousand students | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2084 | Requiring the State Board of Education to promulgate rule implementing a tornado safety awareness plan in public schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2088 | Changing the compulsory school attendance for children in the state from sixteen to eighteen years of age | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2108 | Making armed assault or conspiracy to commit armed assault upon school property or school personnel or students a felony | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2111 | Changing compulsory school attendance until age eighteen or until the student graduates | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2114 | Providing that student residents of this state who commute to school in another state are eligible for the PROMISE scholarship program | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2128 | Requiring county boards of education to establish the daily observance of a minute of silence in all county schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2133 | Funding the PROMISE scholarship program | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2195 | Requiring that the State School Board ensure that no class size for grades seven through twelve be greater than twenty-five students to every one teacher | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2198 | Exempting county school boards of education school buses from paying tolls for transit over the West Virginia Turnpike or any parkways authority project | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2299 | Allowing state employees to take paid leave to attend parent-teacher conference for their children | Pending | House Government Organization | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2413 | Creating the Student and Family Privacy Protection Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2480 | Requiring voter approval prior to closure and consolidation of certain schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2489 | Allowing the State Superintendent of Schools to designate certain geographical areas as a "School Choice Zone" | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2565 | Relating to the delivery of controlled substances on or in an educational facility | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2699 | Relating to reports of inspections of schools by local boards of health | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2706 | Reforming the school aid formula by reducing the amount of regular levy deducted from county boards of education | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2730 | Reducing the ratio of school nurses to school children | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2750 | Providing county boards of education may study the economic feasibility of exercising an option of engaging in cooperative agreements with local public or regional transit authorities to transport students | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2814 | Authorizing the state Board of Education to grant waivers to sparsely populated counties for relief from ratio limitations on state funding | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2817 | Providing for a "moment of silence" in public schools | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2850 | Setting standards for assignment of high school athletic directors | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2867 | Authorizing and encouraging county boards of education to share services of central office administrative personnel | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2911 | Providing a framework to avoid imposition of policies and practices on the public schools that distract from a thorough and efficient education | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2937 | Requiring certain professional development to also be consistent with school and county strategic plans | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2965 | Faculty Excellence Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2970 | Providing a salary supplement for providers of medicaid eligible services in the public schools | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2971 | Providing full daily rate of pay for substitute teachers if they have in excess of ten instructional days in the same school year | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 2980 | Allowing certain county boards of education to operate their schools on a four-day school week | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3010 | West Virginia Public School Employment Relations Act | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3029 | Exempting construction performed on behalf of educational authorities from prevailing wage requirements | Pending | House Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business | Committee | 01/09/08 |
| HB 3215 | Removing the administrative link between Shepherd University and Blue Ridge Community and Technical College | Signed | Governor | 04/08/08 | |
| HB 4023 | Provide for the denial or suspension of a driver's license for any student who withdraws from school or fails to receive passing grades | Signed | Governor | 04/08/08 | |
| HB 4040 | Nontraditional Career Development Centers Act | Pending | House Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business | Committee | 01/14/08 |
| HB 4051 | Providing that only healthy beverages and healthy or nutritional snacks may be sold in the county school system | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/08 |
| HB 4108 | Allowing county school boards to establish a four-day school week and collect fees for use of school buildings on the fifth day | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/21/08 |
| HB 4123 | Relating to transfers of teachers | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/22/08 |
| HB 4163 | Clarifying that if a county board of education moved the library funding obligation of a "special act library" from the regular tax levy to the excess levy, the library funding obligation under the special act would cease | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/15/08 |
| HB 4320 | Relating to the use of personal leave days by a surviving spouse of a deceased employee of a school board | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/29/08 |
| HB 4341 | Relating to payment of National Board for Professional Teaching Standards salary bonus | Pending | Senate Finance | Committee | 02/26/08 |
| HB 4346 | Exempting all schools which include grades kindergarten through twelve from paying consumer sales tax on items the school sells | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/31/08 |
| HB 4350 | Requiring that all decisions regarding certain reductions in full-time classified personnel workforce at state institutions of higher education be made on the basis of seniority | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/31/08 |
| HB 4352 | Allowing teachers who graduated from colleges and universities that are not accredited by associations recognized in West Virginia, to obtain a teaching certificate based on their certification in another state | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/31/08 |
| HB 4365 | Providing a minimum hourly rate of pay for extracurricular assignments for school service personnel | Pending | House Education | Committee | 01/31/08 |
| HB 4368 | Reducing acts of student violence and disruptive behavior and increasing penalties for chronically disruptive students | Signed | Governor | 04/08/08 | |
| HB 4375 | Approving fee waivers for certain students and faculty and staff at institutions of higher education | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/01/08 |
| HB 4377 | Requiring the State Board of Education to create a school drug safety program | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/01/08 |
| HB 4401 | Protecting the academic speech of professional educators | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/04/08 |
| HB 4406 | Relating to state board standards for the recommended duration of school bus transportation times for students to and from school | Signed | Governor | 04/08/08 | |
| HB 4407 | Requiring automatic tire chains as standard equipment on all new school buses | Vetoed | Governor | 04/01/08 | |
| HB 4433 | Increasing the maximum amount of a medical student loan that may be cancelled | Signed | Governor | 04/08/08 | |
| HB 4434 | Establishing a higher education energy and water savings revolving loan fund | Signed | Governor | 04/08/08 | |
| HB 4439 | Including the school principal's recommendation in the criteria to be considered when hiring teachers and other professional personnel | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/06/08 |
| HB 4467 | Making it a misdemeanor to falsify educational or academic records to obtain a benefit | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/08/08 |
| HB 4468 | Permitting county board of education the power to employ the most qualified person to be athletic and other extracurricular coaches | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/08/08 |
| HB 4472 | Requiring a board of education to wait ten days before posting a new job opening following the death of an employee | Signed | Governor | 04/08/08 | |
| HB 4478 | Limiting the mid-year transfer of certain school employees working with students with exceptionalities | Signed | Governor | 04/08/08 | |
| HB 4479 | Mandating that school principals submit recommendations for the superintendent regarding the appointment, assignment, promotion, transfer and dismissal of all personnel | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/11/08 |
| HB 4522 | Reforming the school aid formula by reducing the regular levy deducted from county boards of education | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/13/08 |
| HB 4523 | Allowing guidance counselors to compete equally for all guidance counselor positions | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/13/08 |
| HB 4537 | Prohibiting lottery form using minors in advertising during school hours | Pending | House Judiciary | Committee | 02/14/08 |
| HB 4539 | Providing for continuing contract status for teachers and establishing dismissal and suspension procedures | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/14/08 |
| HB 4557 | Relating to continuing education for insurance producers | Signed | Governor | 04/08/08 | |
| HB 4559 | Providing nonsupervisory employees of the West Virginia State Board of Education with the same protections against summary dismissal as are applicable to employees of county boards of education | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/14/08 |
| HB 4589 | Increasing the penalties for overtaking and passing a school bus | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4593 | Exempting persons with a masters or a doctorate degree in marriage or family therapy from being licensed | Tabled | 3rd Reading | 02/29/08 | |
| HB 4601 | Directing the State Board of Education to develop a program of instruction on macroeconomics | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4631 | Giving county school superintendents more flexibility and ease in placing service personnel workers in positions of need on a day-to-day basis | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4633 | Relating to approval of a student for homebound services and their rights | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4678 | Relating to itinerant status for school service personnel | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4687 | Directing the State Board of Education to determine what principal and teacher reports are unnecessary | Pending | House Education | Committee | 02/18/08 |
| HB 4688 | Establishing a corporate tax credit up to fifty percent of the corporation's net income tax for contributions to scholarship funds | Pending | House Finance | Committee | 02/18/08 |