A BILL to repeal §18-2-5g of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; to repeal §18-2E-3g of said code; to repeal §18B-5-8 of said code; to amend and reenact §18-2E-5 of said code; to amend and reenact §18-2I-5 of said code; to amend and reenact §18-3-12 of said code; to amend and reenact §18-5-44 of said code; to amend and reenact §18-20-5 and §18-20-8 of said code; to amend and reenact §18A-2-3 of said code; to amend and reenact §18A-4-7a of said code; to amend and reenact §18A-5-1a of said code; to amend and reenact §18B-1-10 of said code; to amend and reenact §18B-1B-4 of said code; to amend and reenact §18B-1D-8 of said code; to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §18B-1D-8a; to amend and reenact §18B-2B-6 of said code; to amend and reenact §18B-2C-3 of said code; to amend and reenact §18B-3D-2 of said code; to amend and reenact §18B-10-1 of said code; to amend and reenact §18B-13-5 of said code; to amend and reenact §18B-18-6 of said code; to amend and reenact §18C-3-4 of said code; to amend and reenact §18C-5-7 of said code; and to amend and reenact §18C-7-5 of said code, all relating to legislative education reporting requirements; repealing obsolete section providing for establishment of a special five-year demonstration professional development school project for improving academic achievement including requirement for status reports to commission; repealing requirement for review, evaluation and report to commission on reports required to be written by principals and teachers; repealing section requiring Higher Education Policy Commission to report to commission on in-state and out-of-state contracts and purchases; removing requirement for Office of Education Performance Audits to report to commission on each appeal of on-site review findings; removing requirement for report to the commission on the effectiveness of staff development resulting from expenditures from Strategic Staff Development Fund; removing requirement for status report to commission relating to Special Community Development School Pilot Program; removing requirement for report to commission on progress of implementation of early childhood education programs for all children who have attained the age of four prior to September 1 of the school year in which the pupil enters the program; removing requirement for report to the commission and the Joint Committee on Government and Finance that addresses, at a minimum, certain early childhood education program issues; removing requirement for State Superintendent of Schools to review the rules, policies and standards of the state and federal law for serving the needs of certain exceptional children and removing requirement for report to commission on the findings of the review along with an accounting of the services provided and the costs thereof; removing requirement for annual report to commission, the Joint Committee on Education, the Legislative Commission on Juvenile Law, and other agencies, as appropriate, which recommends policies, procedures and legislation for effectively providing early intervention services and reports on the status of existing programs; removing requirement for State Board of Education to review the status of employing prospective employable professional personnel and the requirement for an annual report to the commission which must include certain minimum prospective employable professional personnel-related items; removing requirement that county board of education submit a copy of its policy defining which policies are lateral positions to the state board within thirty days of any adoption or modification and the requirement that the state board compile a report and submit the report to the commission; removing the requirement that county boards report the number of students determined to be dangerous students to the state board and the requirement that the state board compile the statistics and report its findings to the commission; removing the reporting requirements on the cooperative relationship between Potomac State College and Eastern West Virginia Community and Technical College; removing the requirement that the Higher Education Policy Commission report on its performance, capital investment priorities, and recommendations for statutory changes; removing numerous reports from list of reports that are not required to be made annually to the Legislature and requiring remaining reports on list to be combined with other reports, including certain personnel, classification, compensation and human resources reports, all capital appropriation requests, priorities and campus and state capital development plans, all academic related matters and reports, and all financial aid reports; permitting the Commission to modify deadlines for statutory or rule mandated reports without a statutory or rule-making change as long as provided within calendar year; removing requirement that Council collect and analyze data, report on community and technical college performance in every region, and report on progress toward meeting goals and objectives; removing annual requirement that Council report on its performance, capital investment priorities and recommendations for statutory changes; removing annual requirement that Council report on progress toward meeting statutory goals and whether statewide independently accredited community and technical college should be created; removing requirement for status report on workforce development initiatives; removing requirement for annual report on auxiliary fees; removing requirement that Higher Education Policy Commission report on technical assistance and associated costs provided to qualified businesses within the higher education and industry partnership; removing requirement for annual status report on the Eminent Scholars Endowment Trust Fund; removing requirement of an annual report on number of nursing scholarship recipients; removing requirement to report on status of Higher Education Adult Part-Time Student Grant Program; and removing requirement for annual recommendation to encourage PROMISE recipients to live and work in West Virginia after graduation.