WEST virginia legislature

2016 regular session

Introduced

                          House Bill 4224              

By delegates trecost, Longstreth, Shaffer, Eldridge, Ferro, Caputo and Kelly

[Introduced January 22, 2016; referred to the
Committee on Education then Finance]

A BILL to amend and reenact §18-5-9 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to requiring school restroom facilities to have privacy walls.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That §18-5-9 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 5. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

§18-5-9.  Schoolhouses, buildings and equipment; health of pupils; repairs; medical and dental clinics.

The board shall provide:

(1) By purchase, lease, building or otherwise, a sufficient number of suitable schoolhouses and other buildings to meet the educational needs of its district;

(2) The necessary furniture, fixtures, apparatus, fuel and all necessary supplies for the schools;

(3) For the health and cleanliness of the pupils;

(4) For the repair and good order of the school grounds, buildings and equipment;

(5) Privacy walls in the restroom facilities in schoolhouses and other buildings.

The board may also provide for medical and dental clinics.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require school restroom facilities to have    privacy walls.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.