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There are 183 Bills pending in House Education

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Title

Date

SB 67Relating to public charter schools03/09/26
SB 388Requiring public elementary or secondary school make Aitken Bible available to certain classrooms01/30/26
SB 445Adding Potomac State College as eligible institution for participation in Learn and Earn Program01/30/26
SB 536Relating to qualifications for serving on certain academic boards02/04/26
SB 633Relating to WV Commission on Holocaust Education02/12/26
SB 644Requiring Economic Development Authority participate in federal tax credit scholarship program03/03/26
SB 657Creating Cohen Craddock Student Athlete Safety Act03/05/26
SB 689Creating WV Homeschool Student Athletics Participation Act03/03/26
SB 745Relating to requirements for school nutrition programs03/06/26
SB 778Relating to eligibility for homebound services for exceptional children03/08/26
SB 802Relating to school preparation days03/02/26
SB 804Removing physical education requirements for certain middle and high school athletes03/08/26
SB 925Providing Future Farmers of America-sanctioned activities not count toward limit of excused absences02/23/26
SB 929Relating to state board intervention into county school systems03/05/26
SB 1020Allowing up to five educational leave days within definition of "excused absence"02/27/26
SB 1024Allowing rescission or reversal of school closure decisions through July 1503/03/26
SB 1044Requiring Board of Education to promulgate rule that sets forth common graduation requirements03/03/26
SB 1061Authorizing reassignment of school personnel in certain instances03/03/26
SB 1077Requiring vocational education agriculture programs be offered to all students03/03/26
HB 4034To display the Ten Commandments in public schools01/14/26
HB 4037Consolidate county school boards01/14/26
HB 4062To create the West Virginia Homeschool Student Athletics Participation Act.02/17/26
HB 4065Relating to the membership of the Hope Scholarship Board02/17/26
HB 4066Creating penalties for county and state boards of education for providing misinformation to parents, custodians, reviewers, or any other individual through any form of communication01/14/26
HB 4082Require the West Virginia Department of Education to provide a complete and in-depth budget for review to the Legislature.01/14/26
HB 4086West Virginia Teachers Retirement system01/14/26
HB 4093To allow those with a concealed carry license to carry a concealed handgun in public school property and buildings.01/14/26
HB 4100Relating to human growth and development curriculum01/14/26
HB 4103Relating to the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools01/14/26
HB 4104American Civics and History Act01/14/26
HB 4116Relating to eligiblity for WV Invests Grant Program02/03/26
HB 4152Workforce-Education Partnership Act02/03/26
HB 4181Permitting middle or high school students to participate in travel sports teams without repercussion.01/14/26
HB 4189Relating to Hope Scholarships awards01/14/26
HB 4337Prohibit the use of school resources in election advocacy efforts and prohibit school employees from political activity during their work hours or on behalf of the school administration01/15/26
HB 4368Relating to military connected students01/15/26
HB 4372Permit teachers in K-12 schools be authorized to carry concealed firearms as a designated school protection officer01/15/26
HB 4383West Virginia Clean Air in Schools Act of 202601/15/26
HB 4402Relating to school protection officers02/18/26
HB 4438Relating to Sexual Abuse Prevention Screening, Hiring and Dismissal Requirements01/16/26
HB 4440Permitting law enforcement to issue a citation when students are caught with nicotine in schools.02/03/26
HB 4446Firefighter Pilot Program02/05/26
HB 4448Removing bona fide schools, public libraries, and museums from the list of exemptions from criminal liability relating to distribution and display to minor of obscene matter01/16/26
HB 4453Regarding Teacher Pay01/16/26
HB 4465Regarding Substitute Teacher Pay01/16/26
HB 4497To not entitle WV students to get aid from any WV schools unless they pass a college qualification exam in the 10th grade01/19/26
HB 4505Requiring each county school board to employ at least one full time school nurse01/19/26
HB 4533Including Potomac State College in the definition of community and technical college education program for participation in the “Learn and Earn Program”02/03/26
HB 4536Allow students who enroll and successfully complete a driver’s education course to waive testing at the DMV01/19/26
HB 4544 To create a homeless education coordinator in urban and rural counties.01/19/26
HB 4553To create a tuition reimbursement program for Corrections employees.01/20/26
HB 4572Rural School Flexibility & Innovation Pilot Act01/20/26
HB 4578To provide more local control over educational decisionmaking, differentiation of funding for counties, and to address operational efficiencies within education.01/20/26
HB 4583Victims of Communism Day01/20/26
HB 4584Market pay for Teachers01/20/26
HB 4587Prohibiting public funds from supporting low-earning outcome postsecondary degree programs02/23/26
HB 4593Allow for PE classes to be optional for students who can demonstrate 5 or more weekly hours of outside physical activity01/20/26
HB 4605Relating to modifying the school aid formula to provide more support for schools under certain circumstances. 01/20/26
HB 4607Relating to standards of private schools 01/20/26
HB 4608School Board Election Date Act01/20/26
HB 4611Creating the Hope to Help Community Schools Act of 2026.01/20/26
HB 4633Enrollment Stabilizer for Budget Planning01/21/26
HB 4634Support for neglected Schools01/21/26
HB 4637Limit the time Teachers Aides can be pulled from their regular duties to 30 minutes per day.01/21/26
HB 4641Relating to codifying the guidelines for nutritionally adequate school breakfasts and lunches 02/03/26
HB 4644Require that County Superintendents of Schools for the Department of Education be West Virginia residents.01/21/26
HB 4646Remote Schools Support Act01/21/26
HB 4654To require that teachers in grades 7 through twelve, who teach classes with more than 30 students in their classes receive an additional $25 per day per student over the 30 student-limit, with exceptions for physical education, band, chorus, strings, theater, dance, and other classes aimed at artistic performance.01/21/26
HB 4655Expand the grade level for Laken’s Law01/21/26
HB 4658To add to the teacher pay scale the increments of Bachelor’s Plus 30 and Master’s Plus 60 and add that amount in the appropriate increment.01/21/26
HB 4659Transfer oversight of childcare from the Department of Human Services to the Department of Education01/21/26
HB 4660To move any remaining sixth grade classifications from elementary schools to middle schools.01/23/26
HB 4670To create a pilot program that would exempt certain counties from provisions of the Education code.01/21/26
HB 4690To repeal obsolete and outdated sections of the Education code.01/21/26
HB 4697Require that any student in the 11th or 12th grade, who has been placed in a “free/elective/assistant” period, be informed of online college course opportunities available for them02/03/26
HB 4698Require adoption awareness material be made available in high school counseling offices 01/21/26
HB 4701Relating to the creation of the West Virginia Math & Science Teacher Scholarship Act01/21/26
HB 4705To require a moment of silence at the beginning of school each day in the state01/21/26
HB 4708Clarifying how substitute teachers may serve for extended periods.01/21/26
HB 4720Creating Sustaining Opportunities for Academics in Rural Schools Act01/22/26
HB 4727To provide a 25% pay increase for state teachers (all salary scales)01/22/26
HB 4759Modifing the rules for transferring students02/09/26
HB 4774To set the salary of the Associate Superintendent of Schools01/23/26
HB 4775Relating to addressing School Discipline in Public Schools 02/03/26
HB 4777Establishing Summer Feeding for All Program01/23/26
HB 4788Allow school board members to run for the state legislature01/23/26
HB 4794Requiring high school students to pass a test on the US Constitution to graduate from high school 01/23/26
HB 4818Relating to providing greater access to unused public buildings for public charter schools01/26/26
HB 4834To permit women’s wrestling in public high schools as a sanctioned event02/17/26
HB 4844Modify the procedure for teachers when using leave01/27/26
HB 4847Local Shares teacher and school personnel pay01/27/26
HB 4849Authorize the Superintendent of the county schools district to apply directly to the School Building Authority for emergency funding to facilitate remediation of hazards.01/27/26
HB 4851Relating to creating a moratorium on school closures and consolidations pending a West Virginia Department of Education (“WVDE”) school aid formula proposal.01/27/26
HB 4855To the elimination of the West Virginia Department of Education and providing direct funding for education01/28/26
HB 4859Allowing a county board of education participating in the operation of a multicounty vocational center to withdraw01/28/26
HB 4860Direct Classroom Funding Act01/28/26
HB 4861Authorizing county boards to designate rural anchor schools.01/28/26
HB 4871Make available vegetarian meal option for students enrolled in schools, provided that such meals comply with all applicable federal nutritional guidelines02/17/26
HB 4892To expand the provisionof the literacy-based promation act in order to provide certin intervention and implementation stratagies for literacy proficiency among students in grade 4 through grade 801/28/26
HB 4900To mandate county boards of education to provide feminine hygiene products in all public elementary, middle, and high schools for female students01/28/26
HB 4904Relating to critical vacancies in public education 01/29/26
HB 4905Removing fees teachers have to pay in order to obtain any teaching license, certification, or additional continuing education credit hours (reporting fee) to the state Board of Education01/29/26
HB 4914West Virginia Education Freedom and Parental Empowerment Act01/29/26
HB 4918Mandate the number of School days or hours required01/29/26
HB 4937Establish mandated monthly half days for students to all allow school staff planning time01/29/26
HB 4938Require county boards of education to train at least one professional staff member at each school in a grant writing procedures. 01/29/26
HB 4939To provide $10,000 a year salary increase for any teacher who goes through the National Board Certification process and becomes nationally certified01/29/26
HB 4940Relating to teacher fundraising01/29/26
HB 4941To provide a raise for special education aides, as well as a raise for self-contained special education teachers01/29/26
HB 4942To establish requirements for adult supervision on county school buses01/29/26
HB 4943Require all students to be taught how to properly handle, fold, treat, honor, display, and retire the American flag01/29/26
HB 4944To determine the salaries of all county Superintendent of School based on population. 01/29/26
HB 4945Prohibit the use of electronic devices for learning in all classrooms grades 3 and below01/29/26
HB 4946Authorizing a pilot program for a four day school week01/29/26
HB 4950To establish the West Virginia Freedom and Innovation Pilot Act of 202602/17/26
HB 4952Related to the establishment of the Charter School Direct Loan Program and the Charter School Credit Enhancement Program within the West Virginia Economic Development Authority 01/29/26
HB 4953To require all West Virginia high school students to pass a Civics examination and the United States Naturalization Examination 01/29/26
HB 4955To ensure that classroom sizes are equal without losing a teachers aide01/29/26
HB 4956To change the beginning of the school year to the Tuesday after Labor Day and the end of the school year to the Friday before Memorial Day.01/29/26
HB 4957To change the amount of days in a school year from 180 to 160.01/29/26
HB 4967To allow for the WVSSAC to pull coaching certificates of coaches who are found guilty of illegal recruiting01/29/26
HB 4970To require all state employees, county employees, and employees of county school boards to be subject to random drug testing01/29/26
HB 4973Relating to raising the state minimum salary for teachers to $50,000 beginning in school year 2026-202701/29/26
HB 4975To consolidate county boards of education and create regional districts.01/29/26
HB 4987Relating to the creation of the Safety and Violence Education for Students Act01/30/26
HB 5000Prohibit the use of school resources in election advocacy efforts and prohibit school employees from political activity during their work hours or on behalf of the school administration01/30/26
HB 5010Prohibiting institutions of higher education and affiliate organizations from accepting gifts partnerships, or other funding relationships from foreign adversaries.01/30/26
HB 5020To prohibit a convicted felons of sexual assault, or abuse of juveniles on public school property02/02/26
HB 5045Changing the recommended guidelines for full-day and half-day cooks to the minimum ratio of one cook for every 110 meals02/02/26
HB 5047To create the Mobile Career and Technical Education Classroom Program.02/02/26
HB 5054Relating to requiring the counties particpating in the QMHP Pilot Program to have at least one qualified mental health professional in each public school in that county.02/02/26
HB 5061Relating to the consolidation of county school districts in the state.02/03/26
HB 5072Creating the TechCred Program02/03/26
HB 5090To eliminate all vaccine requirements for school children02/03/26
HB 5115To implement trauma-informed practices in schools02/03/26
HB 5118Provide for statewide participation in the federal Community Eligibility Provision for its duration02/03/26
HB 5121To mandate county boards of education to provide feminine hygiene products in all public elementary, middle, and high schools for female students02/03/26
HB 5124Relating to the eligibility of nonpublic schools and education service providers to participate in the Hope Scholarship Program02/03/26
HB 5132Develop a new method to determine the minimum number of hours per day and per school year to be spent on instructional time.02/03/26
HB 5137Exempting county school buses from paying the toll fees02/03/26
HB 5143Relating to Social Media privacy and educational institutions02/03/26
HB 5148Student Bill of Rights02/03/26
HB 5180When schools have events the school needs to sell tickets at the gate as well as online and accept cash02/04/26
HB 5192School funding calculations should be the last three-year running average or the current enrollment, whichever is highest02/04/26
HB 5194To ban calculators and math computational devices from K-8 grade classrooms.02/04/26
HB 5204Relating to establishing the Child Captivity Prevention Act.02/05/26
HB 5205Requiring the State Board of Education to create model policies on the use of technology and artifical intelligence in a public school classroom02/05/26
HB 5239To increase the minimum starting salary for a teacher to $50,00002/05/26
HB 5244To institute the Learn and Earn program for four-year schools.02/05/26
HB 5245Creating the Governor’s Cup competition 02/05/26
HB 5247Establishing a pilot program to develop school-based mental and behavioral health services02/05/26
HB 5248To create an initiative to provide minorities and males with an incentive to join the public education field02/05/26
HB 5249Limiting the use of state funding under the Hope Scholarship Program for out-of-state private schools and providers02/05/26
HB 5257Relating to education to children and adults housed in correctional facilities and regional jails02/05/26
HB 5265Relating to calculating max number of students at alternative and year-round schools02/05/26
HB 5268Mountaineer Games Sports League02/05/26
HB 5270To allow public high schools to have full time athletic trainers02/05/26
HB 5271Granting full time employees of county boards of education three months of paid leave following the birth of a child02/05/26
HB 5339Prevent public school districts or supervisors from taking adverse action against public school employees for expressing opinions on social media or in public.02/09/26
HB 5346Creating the school aid formula study commission02/09/26
HB 5355If a person who is not certified is holding a teaching position in a WV public school - that position has to come up for bid every year until it is held by a certified person.02/09/26
HB 5362Relating to Hope Scholarships awards02/09/26
HB 5384To authorize the HEPC to be able to adjust the required composite testing score for ACT and SAT in regard to PROMISE scholarship year to year in order to maximize the number of awards02/09/26
HB 5387Relating to high school graduation requirements02/10/26
HB 5417Relating to authorizing the use of professional fireworks displays on public school property02/10/26
HB 5434Creating a moratorium for two years on school closures and providing for a pause on impending school closures.02/11/26
HB 5435The purpose of this bill is to increase funding for rural counties in this state by adding a multiplier to the IEP calculation.02/11/26
HB 5481To ban ultraprocessed foods (exempt drinks) from schools in WV02/12/26
HB 5495Creating certain requirements and accountability procedures regarding a student’s use of software in a public school.02/13/26
HB 5499Relating to school system fiscal and governance early warning, stabilization, and accountability.02/13/26
HB 5573Rural Medical Residency Program concentrating on obstetrics and gynecology for rural hospitals, can be funded from the Rural Health Inititive or other sources funded by the legislature.02/16/26
HB 5577Strengthen school bullying laws. 02/16/26
HB 5583West Virginia Seal of Civic Literacy Act.02/16/26
HB 5584Relating to require county school boards to provide one day in-service training to prepare county employees for annual competency tests.02/16/26
HB 5606Establishing the “Stay in State” tax credit02/16/26
HB 5607Expanding the amount of promise scholarship funds awarded to persons majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics02/16/26
HB 5616Modifying years of service experience to include service personnel.02/16/26
HB 5637Add weighted funding back into the school aid funding formula for students with unique learning needs02/17/26
HB 5643Allowing an LEA or public charter school to enroll, or refuse to enroll, a student who is unlawfully present in the United States02/17/26
HB 5644To establish provisions regarding student immigration status and nationality in WV public educational institutions02/17/26
HB 5647Relating to creating the Open and Equal Opportunities in Student Activities Act.02/17/26
HB 5677To create the Career Pipeline for Coalfield Counties Act.02/17/26
HB 5679To modify county school boards and county boards of directors02/17/26
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