WEST virginia legislature

2025 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 2929

By Delegate Canterbury

Introduced February 24, 2025; referred to the Committee on Education

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding a new section, designated §18-5-52, relating to banning calculators and math computational devices from K-8 grade classrooms.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 5. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

§18-5-52.  Ban on the usage of calculators and related devices for kindergarten through eighth grade students.

The use of calculators and electronic computational devices is prohibited for students in math classes from kindergarten through the eighth grade.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to ban calculators and math computational devices from K-8 grade classrooms.

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