Bill Status - 2013 Regular Session
Committee Activity
90 Bills Pending in Committee — House Education
| Bill | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| SB 98 | Creating Shale Research, Education, Policy and Economic Development Center at WVU | 04/03/13 |
| HB 2002 | Providing for the use of neck braces by football players | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2017 | 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 | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2024 | Allowing guidance counselors to compete equally for all guidance counselor positions | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2028 | Relating to the employment and compensation of school service personnel | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2034 | Exempting children receiving an exemption from compulsory school attendance in favor of church school from standardized testing requirement | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2035 | Providing full daily rate of pay for substitute teachers if they have in excess of ten instructional days in the same school year | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2036 | Relating to itinerant status for school service personnel | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2043 | Establishing school service personnel class title and pay grade for the positions of "Administrative Assistant" and "Legal Secretary" | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2053 | Requiring county boards of education to employ a certified library media specialist in each county school | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2090 | Relating to redemption or repayment of PROMISE scholarship funds when a student drops or withdraws from classes | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2121 | Requiring elementary students to have access to a certified library media specialist, art specialist, music specialist and physical education specialist | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2134 | Allowing the school building authority to designate money for the building of playgrounds | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2148 | Requiring that handicap restroom facilities and stalls in all colleges and universities be constructed with automatic doors | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2162 | Relating to educational benefits for dependents of deceased or disabled veterans | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2163 | Adding $20 million to the West Virginia Research Trust Fund | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2169 | Relating to school service personnel classification and compensation | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2186 | Protecting academic speech of professional educators | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2190 | Requiring the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission to propose legislative rules concerning concussions | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2197 | Clarifying that a child who is physically healthy and presumed safe is a neglected child if the child is habitually absent from school | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2221 | Decreasing the student to teacher ratio in kindergarten through sixth grades | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2223 | Relating to compulsory school attendance | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2224 | Providing paid childbirth leave for higher education personnel | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2228 | Creating the Higher Education Merit Screening Advisory Committee | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2233 | Relating to the School Building Authority | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2236 | Providing a salary supplement for providers of medicaid eligible services in the public schools | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2247 | Relating to residency requirements for persons appointed as campus police officers | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2250 | Providing a loan forgiveness program for nurses, social workers, dentists and hygienists | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2271 | Retaining nursing educators | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2281 | Increasing the pay grade of cafeteria managers | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2289 | Requiring that transportation to and from school be provided for each child that needs or desires transportation | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2291 | Relating to the denial of course credits for unexcused absences in school | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2303 | Requiring all high schools include in their health classes a course in fetal development | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2309 | Preventing teachers from being assigned additional responsibilities during planning period | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2315 | Requiring automated external defibrillators in public schools | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2326 | Relating to persons who do not qualify for professional certificates who are issued certificates to serve in the public schools as athletic coaches | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2329 | Relating to the use of personal leave days by a surviving spouse of a deceased employee of a school board | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2333 | Modifying the restriction on the number of terms that a chairperson of an institutional governing board of higher education may serve | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2340 | Relating to teacher pay rate for work assignment outside regular school day or beyond a contracted employment period | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2342 | Permitting the issuance of a barrister's certificate to teach course specific curricula in public schools | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2343 | Increasing the educational increment for school service personnel | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2368 | Relating to tuition and fee waivers for members of the West Virginia State Police to attend a college or university | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2376 | Increasing salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2378 | Relating to the hiring of substitute service personnel by county school boards | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2388 | Allowing the State Superintendent of Schools to designate certain geographical areas as a "School Choice Zone" | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2390 | Providing that a teacher who holds a valid license to carry a concealed deadly weapon may carry the concealed weapon on the school property | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2398 | Relating to county boards of education | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2400 | Relating to disclosure of sex offender registration to private elementary and secondary schools, and to higher education institutions | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2403 | Creating a separate category within the Underwood-Smith Teacher Scholarship Program | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2415 | Changing how the public school support foundation allowance is determined | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2416 | Authorizing the School Building Authority to award grants or moneys to county and local library boards in connection with public library construction projects | 02/13/13 |
| HB 2456 | Increasing the school dropout age | 02/14/13 |
| HB 2474 | Authorizing tax credits for parents and legal guardians whose children are in a home schooling program | 02/15/13 |
| HB 2496 | West Virginia School Personnel Survivor Benefit Act | 02/15/13 |
| HB 2517 | Permitting volunteer firefighters to automatically qualify for Promise Scholarships | 02/15/13 |
| HB 2518 | Establishing protocols and protections to limit and treat injury to youth athletes and students | 02/18/13 |
| HB 2526 | Allowing for the participation of home schooled students in certain secondary school activities | 02/19/13 |
| HB 2545 | Creating the Nonresident Medical Student Tuition Regularization Program | 02/19/13 |
| HB 2560 | Providing exceptions to the prohibition of the possession of deadly weapons on premises of educational facilities | 02/20/13 |
| HB 2581 | Requiring that a sum certain be deposited into the Education Improvement Fund for appropriation by the Legislature | 02/21/13 |
| HB 2594 | Relating to required courses of school instruction generally | 02/21/13 |
| HB 2725 | Transforming and improving public education | 02/25/13 |
| HB 2741 | Protecting academic freedom in higher education | 02/26/13 |
| HB 2743 | Consolidating purchasing by county boards of education | 02/27/13 |
| HB 2744 | Allowing a tax deduction for all prepaid tuition contracts or college savings plan | 02/27/13 |
| HB 2745 | Exempting undergraduate students attending state colleges or universities for the first two years postgraduation, from the payment of state income tax | 02/27/13 |
| HB 2746 | Extending the Teachers' State Minimum Salary Schedule and equity supplements | 02/27/13 |
| HB 2765 | Relating generally to child abuse and neglect | 02/28/13 |
| HB 2807 | Requiring the State Board of Education to pay annual bonuses of $5,000 to certain teachers | 03/04/13 |
| HB 2808 | Authorizing the establishment of charter schools | 03/04/13 |
| HB 2864 | Relating to the West Virginia Research Trust Fund | 03/07/13 |
| HB 2873 | Requiring that public schools provide facilities for students of all faiths and religions to have a place of fellowship, prayer and worship | 03/08/13 |
| HB 2891 | Relating to scholarships for dependent children of state troopers who die in performance of duty | 03/11/13 |
| HB 2919 | Increasing the amount of compensation a member of a county board of education may receive for attending certain meetings | 03/13/13 |
| HB 2920 | Making clear that the Pledge of Allegiance said each instructional day in West Virginia public schools shall include the phrase "one nation under God." | 03/13/13 |
| HB 2934 | Providing that seventh grade students are eligible to attend vocational school | 03/14/13 |
| HB 2937 | Authorizing a county school board to adopt a policy that allows an inspirational message | 03/14/13 |
| HB 2963 | Providing educators released time to serve on county commissions | 03/19/13 |
| HB 2970 | Reforming the school aide formula | 03/19/13 |
| HB 2973 | Allowing certain county boards of education to operate their schools on a four-day school week | 03/19/13 |
| HB 2982 | Prohibiting the use of calculators for teaching purposes in grades K through eight | 03/19/13 |
| HB 2983 | Requiring inclusion of science fiction reading material in certain existing middle school and high school courses | 03/19/13 |
| HB 3009 | Schoolchildren's Religious Liberties Act | 03/20/13 |
| HB 3044 | Providing more flexibility to county school boards in managing schools | 03/22/13 |
| HB 3050 | Relating to salary increases for teachers based on residential housing costs | 03/22/13 |
| HB 3059 | Requiring county boards of education to allow students with disabilities to participate in high school graduation ceremonies with their peers | 03/22/13 |
| HB 3111 | Relating to computing local share of public education support | 03/25/13 |
| HB 3128 | Directing the State Board of Education to determine which principal and teacher reports are unnecessary | 03/25/13 |
| HB 3133 | Relating to voting by absentees | 03/25/13 |
| HB 3143 | Creating an environmental awareness program in the West Virginia School system | 03/25/13 |