Legislative Browser - Committee - House: Education (West Virginia)
Details for House Education
| State | Bill Number | Summary/Title | Action | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WV | SB626 | The purpose of this bill is to provide eligibility for a license to teach in the public schools for candidates who are not United States citizens. | To House Education | 2010-03-03 |
| WV | SB128 | The purpose of this bill is to authorize that net settlement proceeds held for a minor may be invested in a Smart 529 college savings plan. | To House Education | 2010-02-25 |
| WV | HB4595 | The purpose of this bill is to provide a five percent increase in teacher's salaries for each of the following school years, 2009-2010, 2010-2011, 2011-2012, and also to add pay increment categories for teachers with BA +30, +45 and Master's +60. | To House Education | 2010-02-22 |
| WV | HB4608 | The purpose of this bill is to increase service personnel salaries by five percent for each of the next three years and to rectify inequities in the salary schedule and pay grades for service personnel by upgrading the pay grade of cooks and custodia... Read More... | To House Education | 2010-02-22 |
| WV | HB4631 | The purpose of this bill is to grant the Higher Education Policy Commission rule-making authority to redeem or secure repayment of PROMISE scholarship funds from students who withdraw or drop classes. This section is new; therefore, it has been compl... Read More... | To House Education | 2010-02-22 |
| WV | HB4637 | The purpose of this bill is to allow county school boards to enter into energy-saving contracts and allow them to extend fifteen years. | To House Education | 2010-02-22 |
| WV | HB4650 | The purpose of this bill is to add language to allow playgrounds to be funded as part of projects considered by the school building authority. | To House Education | 2010-02-22 |
| WV | HB4653 | The purpose of this bill is to require elementary students to have access to a certified library media specialist, art specialist, music specialist and physical education specialist at least twice a week. §18-2-7d is new; therefore, it has been ... Read More... | To House Education | 2010-02-22 |
| WV | HB4655 | The purpose of this bill is to change dates relating to when notices of termination of an employment contract with school personnel, notices of transfer of school personnel and notices to probationary personnel of rehiring or nonrehiring are to be gi... Read More... | To House Education | 2010-02-22 |
| WV | HB4662 | The purpose of this bill is to permit a retired law- enforcement officer to be employed by a county board of education as a resource prevention officer in public schools. | To House Education | 2010-02-22 |
| WV | HB4579 | The purpose of this bill is to reform the school aid formula by reducing over two years from ninety percent to eighty percent, then to seventy percent the amount of the regular levy deducted from county boards of education for general current expense... Read More... | To House Education | 2010-02-19 |
| WV | HB4543 | The purpose of the bill is to reimburse teachers for recertification with the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. | To House Education | 2010-02-18 |
| WV | HB4553 | The purpose of this bill is to remove West Virginia University Institute of Technology from the merger with West Virginia University and return it to its former status as a singular state institution of higher education. | To House Education | 2010-02-18 |
| WV | HB4495 | The purpose of this bill is to require the State Superintendent of Schools to report annually to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability regarding special demonstration professional development school projects and to specify ... Read More... | To House Education | 2010-02-15 |
| WV | HB4487 | The purpose of this bill is to improve security at state schools by requiring the reporting of assaults, batteries and other incidents on school property, during school hours or during school activities to the appropriate local juvenile authority. Th... Read More... | To House Education | 2010-02-12 |
| WV | HB4423 | The purpose of this bill is to allow counties to provide salary increments or additional compensation for teachers who are placed in a documented area of shortage or placed in a school with a high poverty or high minority student population, and to r... Read More... | To House Education | 2010-02-10 |
| WV | HB4424 | The purpose of this bill is to require for implementation beginning July 1, 2011, a revised annual personnel evaluation process for all professional personnel that is aligned with the state's new teaching and leadership standards. | To House Education | 2010-02-10 |
| WV | HB4427 | The purpose of this bill is to provide an annual $5,000 bonus to teachers of advanced placement math and science classes. | To House Education | 2010-02-10 |
| WV | HB4413 | The purpose of this bill is to require the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission to propose legislative rules concerning concussions. | To House Education | 2010-02-09 |
| WV | HB4398 | The purpose of this bill is to redefine planning periods for teachers. | To House Education | 2010-02-08 |
| WV | HB4399 | The purpose of this bill is to create the Higher Education Merit Screening Advisory Committee to make recommendations to the Governor for appointments to governing boards of state universities, colleges and community colleges. The bill provides for t... Read More... | To House Education | 2010-02-08 |
| WV | HB4375 | The purpose of this bill is to retain full-time nursing educators in the state by providing up to a $3,500 tax credit for full-time nursing faculty members. The bill sets forth the criteria for the credit. The bill also grants rulemaking authority to... Read More... | To House Education | 2010-02-05 |
| WV | HB4377 | The purpose of this bill is to give county school superintendents more flexibility and ease in placing service personnel workers in positions of need on a day-to-day basis. | To House Education | 2010-02-05 |
| WV | HB4378 | The purpose of this bill is to outline the minimum requirement for a state board rule establishing an alternative program leading to certification as a principal in the public schools. | To House Education | 2010-02-05 |
| WV | HB4380 | The purpose of this bill is to provide eligibility for a license to teach in the public schools for candidates who are not United States citizens. | To House Education | 2010-02-05 |
| WV | HB4383 | The purpose of this bill is to enable the Department of Education to intervene in a more timely fashion to assist a school to improve before more substantive interventions could ensue. | To House Education | 2010-02-05 |
| WV | HB4340 | Protecting academic speech of professional educators | To House Education | 2010-02-04 |
| WV | HB4343 | The purpose of this bill is to increase awareness and understanding of labor history and the contributions of workers to the state, nation and world by designating the annual observance of the week following the Labor Day Holiday as Labor History Wee... Read More... | To House Education | 2010-02-04 |
| WV | HB4345 | The purpose of this bill is to give teachers credit toward the pay scale for completing an accredited seminary. | To House Education | 2010-02-04 |
| WV | HB4306 | The purpose of this bill is to replace provisions that reduce the school aid formula funding for counties when the property assessments in the county are not at least fifty-four percent of market value as indicated by an assessment ratio study with p... Read More... | To House Education | 2010-02-03 |
| WV | HB4290 | The purpose of this bill is to set standards for school athletic directors. | To House Education | 2010-02-02 |
| WV | HB4263 | The purpose of this bill is to change the name of Marshall Community and Technical College to MountWest Community and Technical College. | To House Education | 2010-02-01 |
| WV | HB4165 | The purpose of this bill is to increase the minimum age for ending compulsory school attendance from age sixteen to age seventeen and to reduce from ten to five the number of days of unexcused absences at which proceeding to enforce attendance begin.... Read More... | To House Education | 2010-01-25 |
| WV | HB4163 | The purpose of this bill is to allow the governing boards of state institutions of higher education to participate in the Public Employees Insurance Agency insurance program; another third-party insurance program; or, in the alternative, the boards m... Read More... | To House Education | 2010-01-22 |
| WV | HB2001 | The purpose of this bill is to provide an additional $5,000 in state minimum salary to fully certified math and science teachers who teach in these subjects in grades seven through 12 and to certified reading specialists. | To House Education | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2005 | The purpose of this bill is to require every school to post and make available to the public the schedule for every teacher and staff personnel for each school, and if a school fails to do so, the principal of that school and the county superintenden... Read More... | To House Education | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2297 | The purpose of this bill is to create a secure residential school for juvenile status offenders; and to provide an alternative school for children who are expelled or suspended from regular school by permitting them to attend evening classes or night... Read More... | To House Education | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2519 | The purpose of this bill is to allow fireworks displays on public school property upon approval of the State Superintendent of Schools and the State Fire Marshal. | To House Education | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2617 | The purpose of this bill is to provide for a waiver or reimbursement of tuition and fees for members of the West Virginia State Police attending institutions of higher education. | To House Education | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2121 | The purpose of this bill is to make armed assault or conspiracy to commit armed assault upon school property, or against school personnel or students who are on school property, a felony punishable by twenty-five years imprisonment and a $10,000 fine... Read More... | To House Education | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2921 | The purpose of this bill is to grant tuition and fee waivers to members of the State Police to attend a college or university. | To House Education | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB3173 | The purpose of this bill is to set compensation standards for classified employees who work overtime on weekends or holidays. | To House Education | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2044 | The purpose of this bill is to include Salem International University as an eligible institution and modifies provisions regarding the higher education institutions that are eligible to continue to receive PROMISE scholarship funds. | To House Education | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2013 | The purpose of this bill is to increase salary increments paid to principals and assistant principals. | To House Education | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2017 | The purpose of this bill is to authorize and encourage county boards of education to share services of central office administrative personnel and to obtain these services from regional education service agencies. | To House Education | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2020 | The purpose of this bill is to authorize an exemption from standardized testing for children receiving an exemption from compulsory school attendance who attend church school. The actual intent of the bill is to provide an exemption for Amish child... Read More... | To House Education | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2024 | The purpose of this bill is to reduce staff development programs for school personnel from 18 hours to 12 hours; and requiring that the six hour reduction in staff development be used as an additional preparation day. | To House Education | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2037 | The purpose of this bill is to provide West Virginia students with a partial PROMISE scholarship for schooling outside the state for the reason that no in-state institution offers a course for a major or a degree in the desired field; and to require ... Read More... | To House Education | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2067 | The purpose of this bill is to allow a tax deduction for all prepaid tuition contracts or college savings plan regardless of whether they are administered by the board of the college prepaid tuition and savings program. | To House Education | 2010-01-13 |
| WV | HB2069 | The purpose of this bill is to increase the faculty senate allotment for classroom teachers and librarians from $50 to $100, to be spent on academic materials, supplies or equipment to enhance instruction. | To House Education | 2010-01-13 |