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West Virginia Senate Education Committee
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| Bill | Bill Name | Progress | Referral Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB2003 | Prohibiting Cell phones in class | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/24/2025 |
| HB2143 | Require elementary school teachers to be certified in the science of reading | Dead | 03/18/2025 |
| HB2164 | To allow for public and private schools in West Virginia to employ security personnel. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/18/2025 |
| HB2167 | Relating to public charter schools code provisions | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/01/2025 |
| HB2190 | Including Potomac State College in the definition of community and technical college education program for participation in the “Learn and Earn Program” | Dead | 03/13/2025 |
| HB2411 | To provide and change graduation requirements and change duties relating to academic content standards | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/13/2025 |
| HB2499 | Training course for principals in public schools; informing teachers of their rights and protections; IEP format | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/25/2025 |
| HB2513 | Enhancing training requirements for county boards of education members | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/18/2025 |
| HB2515 | Relating to elementary behavior intervention and safety | Dead | 03/04/2025 |
| HB2516 | To repeal antiquated and inoperative portions of code. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/18/2025 |
| HB2528 | To permit students in Christian schools at the elementary and middle school level to participate in county level sport tournaments | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/31/2025 |
| HB2548 | Clarifying duties of state superintendent regarding rule implementation | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/21/2025 |
| HB2576 | NIL Protection Act | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/02/2025 |
| HB2595 | Non Profit Athletics Act | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/02/2025 |
| HB2635 | To ensure that classroom sizes are equal without losing a teachers aide | Dead | 03/18/2025 |
| HB2646 | To permit students in eighth and ninth grade to attend summer school in order to raise their grades and establish academic eligibility to play sports in the fall. | Dead | 03/26/2025 |
| HB2773 | Higher Ed Rules | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/21/2025 |
| HB2774 | Coach Protection Act | Dead | 03/13/2025 |
| HB2777 | Relating to removing requirements to submit certain evidence on behalf of home-schooled children | Dead | 04/03/2025 |
| HB2897 | Permitting the Legislative Auditor to conduct periodic performance and financial audits of the West Virginia Department of Education | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/01/2025 |
| HB2973 | Regarding venue for legal actions against the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission | Dead | 04/03/2025 |
| HB3024 | Guaranteed course transfer bill | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/21/2025 |
| HB3125 | To remove restrictions from teachers receiving permanent teaching licenses | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/24/2025 |
| HB3139 | Relating to charter schools applications | Dead | 03/26/2025 |
| HB3166 | Requirements for School Safety Mapping Data | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/24/2025 |
| HB3192 | To repeal obsolete, conflicting or inoperative provisions of code that pertain to higher education | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/21/2025 |
| HB3209 | To provide at least one counselor for every 250 students in public schools and public charter schools in this state. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/01/2025 |
| HB3313 | Providing more opportunities for high school students in community colleges | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/26/2025 |
| HB3422 | Relating to requiring the State Board of Education to design, test, and deploy an internet-based reporting system to be known as the School Choice Portal | Dead | 04/03/2025 |
| HB3446 | Permitting public high school students submit FAFSA prior to graduation | Dead | 04/03/2025 |
| HCR96 | Urging West Virginia’s members of Congress to ask the President not to cut funding for the Local Food in Schools and Child Care nutrition | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 04/07/2025 |
| SB37 | Allowing certain Teachers Retirement System members to exchange unused leave for monetary compensation | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB41 | Approving overtime pay for teachers | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB42 | Reducing number of days required for certain educators to apply for full-time employment | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB47 | Authorizing WVSSAC to promulgate legislative rules | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB48 | Creating mobile training team for school safety | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB53 | Prohibiting schools from starting earlier than 7:45 am | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB54 | Requiring age-appropriate instruction on Holocaust in public schools | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB80 | Requiring moment of silence at beginning of each school day | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB89 | Creating alternative high-risk population public charter schools | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB90 | Providing greater access to unused buildings for public charter schools | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB94 | Requiring course in public schools on human development | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB119 | Stop the Bleed Act | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB122 | Establishing minimum student enrollment for school aid formula | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB154 | Prohibiting sexual orientation instruction in public schools | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/12/2025 |
| SB155 | Establishing Summer Feeding for All Program | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB158 | Modifying eligibility requirements for serving as member of State Board of Education | Vetoed | 02/12/2025 |
| SB179 | Granting school administrators ability to hold students back for 20 or more missed days | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB180 | Relating to teaching and instructing world languages in public schools | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB187 | Providing bonuses to school personnel for unused personal days | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB197 | Limiting requirements for issuance of professional teaching certificate | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB199 | Relating to elementary behavior intervention and safety | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/12/2025 |
| SB209 | Creating WV Guardian Program | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB214 | Creating homeless education coordinator in counties designated by state board as urban county | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB220 | Authorizing child sexual abuse and sexual violence prevention program and in-service training in child sexual abuse prevention | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB245 | Hunger-Free Campus Act | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB251 | Requiring county boards ensure their meetings are open to public through in-person attendance and broadcast live on their websites | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB255 | Allowing students to participate in non-school competitive activities | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB256 | Modifying training requirements for county boards of education members | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB261 | Reorganizing School Building Authority as School Maintenance Authority | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB275 | Removing requirement school cooks or custodians have high school diploma or equivalent | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/12/2025 |
| SB277 | Prohibiting teaching of divisive acts and critical race theory in public schools | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB280 | Displaying official US motto in public schools | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/12/2025 |
| SB282 | Modifying provisions for employment of retired teachers as substitutes in areas of critical need and shortage | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/12/2025 |
| SB283 | Expanding grade levels of personal finance course requirements needed for graduation | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/12/2025 |
| SB284 | Relating to county board of education member orientation and compensation | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB285 | Creating WV Guardian Program | Dead | 02/12/2025 |
| SB424 | Restoring Sanity Act | Dead | 02/13/2025 |
| SB432 | Requiring county boards of education adopt policies limiting use of personal cell phones and other electronic communication devices | Dead | 02/13/2025 |
| SB434 | Requiring WV Board of Education to implement wearable panic alert system in public schools | Dead | 02/13/2025 |
| SB442 | Creating WV Released Time Education Act | Dead | 02/13/2025 |
| SB449 | Permitting compressed air and rimfire shooting teams in public schools | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/13/2025 |
| SB450 | Establishing WV Guardian Program | Dead | 02/13/2025 |
| SB457 | Prohibiting cell phones in class | Dead | 02/13/2025 |
| SB470 | Creating WV Athletic Freedom Act | Dead | 02/14/2025 |
| SB471 | Creating Student-First School Funding Act | Dead | 02/14/2025 |
| SB477 | Requiring ambulance, if available, at middle school or high school football game | Dead | 02/14/2025 |
| SB478 | Repealing athletic eligibility of transfer students | Dead | 02/14/2025 |
| SB480 | Allowing licensed substitute and full-time teachers to serve as parent volunteers without additional background check | Dead | 02/14/2025 |
| SB499 | Non-Profit Athletics Act | Dead | 02/14/2025 |
| SB506 | Relating to enhanced pay for certain teachers | Dead | 02/17/2025 |
| SB516 | Providing extra state aid to school districts for students enrolled in extremely remote schools | Dead | 02/18/2025 |
| SB529 | Relating generally to liability insurance coverage for Board of Education | Dead | 02/19/2025 |
| SB531 | Relating to offenses of assault and battery on athletic officials | Vetoed | 02/19/2025 |
| SB533 | Clarifying where the West Virginia Secondary Schools Activity Commission (WVSSAC) may be involved in legal action | Dead | 02/19/2025 |
| SB548 | Creating Safety and Violence Education for Students Act | Dead | 02/20/2025 |
| SB554 | Establishing Raylee's Law | Dead | 02/20/2025 |
| SB558 | Requiring computer science course prior to graduation | Dead | 02/20/2025 |
| SB559 | Requiring legal actions concerning WVSSAC to be filed in Wood or Kanawha County | Dead | 02/20/2025 |
| SB566 | Providing certified law-enforcement officers tuition-free education up to highest tuition rate for public higher education in WV | Dead | 02/21/2025 |
| SB581 | Relating to school attendance and student participation in 4-H activities | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 02/24/2025 |
| SB631 | Relating to eligibility for WV Invests Grant Program | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| SB635 | Limiting use of state funding under Hope Scholarship program for out-of-state private schools and providers | Dead | 02/28/2025 |
| SB646 | Increasing non-traditional instruction days for WV teachers | Dead | 03/03/2025 |
| SB647 | Authorizing higher education institutions to enter into agreements relating to student-athlete's name, image, or likeness | Dead | 03/03/2025 |
| SB650 | Relating to full-time interventionists | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/03/2025 |
| SB652 | Expanding cardiac arrest provisions to be applicable to elementary schools | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/03/2025 |
| SB667 | Providing for display of Ten Commandments in each classroom | Dead | 03/04/2025 |
| SB672 | Limiting student use of cell phones in K-12 classrooms | Dead | 03/04/2025 |
| SB674 | Creating Standardized Testing Choice Act | Dead | 03/04/2025 |
| SB684 | Creating Community School Funding Formula Revision Act | Dead | 03/04/2025 |
| SB692 | Relating to requirements to receive PROMISE Scholarship | Dead | 03/04/2025 |
| SB695 | Requiring higher education institutions to accept Classic Learning Test | Dead | 03/04/2025 |
| SB737 | Creating WV Farm Equipment Repair Pilot Program | Dead | 03/11/2025 |
| SB749 | Relating generally to public charter schools | Dead | 03/13/2025 |
| SB755 | Establishing WV Secondary School Athletic Trainer and Career Technical Education Program Act | Dead | 03/14/2025 |
| SB762 | Creating Support for Neglected Schools Act | Dead | 03/17/2025 |
| SB764 | Creating Community School Parent Choice Act | Dead | 03/17/2025 |
| SB765 | Establishing Troops-to-Teachers Program | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/20/2025 |
| SB804 | Relating to WV Secondary School Activities Commission Reform Act | Dead | 03/19/2025 |
| SB819 | Requiring heart health program in grades three through six | Dead | 03/19/2025 |
| SB831 | Establishing Troops-to-Teachers Program | Dead | 03/20/2025 |
| SB854 | Creating Academic Quality in Public Education Act | Dead | 03/20/2025 |
| SB866 | Requiring WV Board of Education to promulgate legislative rule in consultation with WV Board of Physical Therapy | Dead | 03/21/2025 |
| SB879 | Requiring public high school students submit FAFSA prior to graduation | Dead | 03/21/2025 |
| SB881 | Modifying authority of certain higher education entities to sell and transfer property | Dead | 03/24/2025 |
| SB889 | Creating Sustaining Opportunities for Academics in Rural Schools Act | Dead | 03/24/2025 |
| SB896 | Creating moratorium on school closings and consolidation | Dead | 03/24/2025 |
| SB897 | Creating Community School Support Fund | Dead | 03/24/2025 |
| SB906 | Creating Community Schools Funding Formula Revision Act | Dead | 03/24/2025 |
| SB911 | Relating to adjunct teaching permits | Dead | 03/24/2025 |
| SB912 | Relating to student growth assessment program | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/24/2025 |
| SB914 | Relating to testing and attendance requirements for private, parochial, and church schools | Signed/Enacted/Adopted | 03/24/2025 |
| SB915 | Providing at least one counselor for every 250 students in public schools and public charter schools | Dead | 03/24/2025 |
| SB926 | Requiring WV Department of Education to include optional Firefighter One class as part of curriculum in grades nine through 12 | Dead | 03/24/2025 |
| SB929 | Restoring Private Schools Act of 2025 | Dead | 03/24/2025 |
| SB930 | Creating WV Constitutional Schools Act of 2025 | Dead | 03/24/2025 |