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The following is a list of Senate and House education and education-related bills having been adopted during the First Regular Session of the 80th West Virginia Legislature.

The listing is based on information provided by the West Virginia Legislature on its official website - http://www.legis.state.wv.us

Note: Except as otherwise noted, bills are listed by short title. If the Enrolled Bill language is available - as with most bills - the appropriate reference is included. Similarly, in cases where the Enrolled Bill language is not available this information also is noted.

For more information, contact the W. Va. School Board Association or visit the W. Va. Legislature's official website, http://www.legis.state.wv.us Contact WVSBA by using the following address: info@wvsba.org - Howard M. O'Cull, Ed.D., Editor.

County Boards

• House Bill 2557. Extending the time for the Board of Education of Upshur County to meet as a levying body. Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc =hb2557%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=2557


• House Bill 2709.. Allowing county school boards to enter into energy-saving contracts. Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc =HB2709%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=2709
   

School Personnel/Retirement

• Senate Bill 382.Specifying activities entitling certain members of National Guard or reserve to leave of absence, including funeral details, service schools or annual training or other full-time National Guard duty. Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc =SB382%20SUB1%20enr.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=382


• House Bill 2556."Resetting" the expiration date of provisions that allow the employment of retired teachers as substitutes beyond the post-retirement employment limit in areas of critical need and shortage. Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc =hb2556%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=2556


• House Bill 2648. Increasing the faculty senate allotment for classroom teachers and librarians. Legislative Action Completed. Reference:http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc =hb2648%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=2648


• House Bill 2879. Providing a one-time, nonbase building, supplemental salary increase for all eligible state employees. NOTE: This measure has been amended; Bill Title does not reflect amendment(s) as this measure is an omnibus pay raise bill, including pay for professional educators and school service personnel. Legislative action completed. Reference: Enrolled bill not available.


• House Bill 3116. Relating to the authority of school curriculum teams and local school collaborative processes. Legislative action completed. Reference: Enrolled bill not available.

Retirement

• House Bill 3145. Providing a one-time bonus to certain annuitants of the Public Employees Retirement System and the State Teachers Retirement System. Legislative Action Completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3145%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=3145


• House Bill 2765. Relating to retirement plans administered by the West Virginia Consolidated Public Retirement Board. Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2765%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=2765

General

Education Compacts

• House Bill 2550.Establishing Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2550%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=2550

School Safety

• Senate Bill 592. Requiring schools have crisis response plans. Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb592%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=592

Students

• Senate Bill 228. Creating Local Solution Dropout Prevention and Recovery Act. Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB228%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=228


• House Bill 3225. Expanding the definition of harassment, intimidation or bullying. Legislative action completed. Reference: Enrolled bill not available.


• House Concurrent Resolution 45. Conducting a study on the educational and communication barriers facing children in West Virginia who are deaf or hard of hearing and their families. Legislative action completed. Reference: Enrolled resolution not available.


• House Resolution 12. Encouraging West Virginia's middle and high schools to help promote breast cancer awareness by hosting "pink" sports and recreational events during the month of October. Legislative action completed. Reference: Enrolled resolution not available.  

Innovation Zones

• Senate Bill 612. Exempting certain schools and school districts from certain statutory provisions (School Innovation Zone legislation). Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB612%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=612

Governmental Entities

School Building Authority of West Virginia

• Senate Bill 373. Requiring state School Building Authority of West Virginia to allocate and expend certain moneys for vocational programs at comprehensive middle schools. House Finance Adopted March 10. Reference: Enrolled bill not available.
   

West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission

• Senate Bill 239. Extending period higher education institutes have to deposit moneys into research endowments. Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb239%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=239


• Senate Bill 330. Relating to higher education generally. Legislative action completed.    Reference: Enrolled bill not available.


• Senate Bill 375. Authorizing Higher Education Policy Commission to collect and disseminate information concerning higher education institutions. Legislative action completed.  Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb375%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=375


• Senate Bill 484. Relating to management agreements of Higher Education Policy Commission. Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB484%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=484


• Senate Bill 486.Creating West Virginia University-Tech Revitalization project. Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb486%20intr%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=486


• Senate Bill 514. Authorizing legislative rule for Higher Education Policy Commission regarding authorization of degree-granting institutions. Legislative action completed. Reference:http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb514%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=514


• Senate Bill 538. Creating Learn and Earn Cooperative Education Program. Legislativeaction completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb538%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=538
• House Bill 2539. Authorizing the West Virginia State Police to enter into agreements for certain forensic sciences with the Marshall University Forensic Science Center. Legislative action completed. Reference: Enrolled bill not available.


• House Bill 2981. Clarifying payment for trade certifications and allowing use of tuition assistance for West Virginia National Guard members enrolled in a doctor of medicine or osteopathic medicine program.Legislative action completed. Reference: Enrolled bill not available.

West Virginia Public Employees Insurance Agency (PEIA)

• House Bill 2345. Changing the membership of the PEIA Financial Board by changing the number of citizen members from four to three, and requiring the position of the former citizen member is taken by a person who is an interested person from a participating political subdivision. Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2345%20enr.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=2345

West Virginia Unemployment Compensation Fund

• Senate Bill 219. Relating to maintaining solvency of Unemployment Compensation Fund. Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB219%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=219

West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Fund

• House Bill 3163. Relating to Workers’ Compensation programs of state government entities. Legislative action completed. Reference: Enrolled bill not available.
   

Education-related

Child Welfare

• Senate Bill 61. Relating generally to juvenile drug courts, including appointment of hearing officers for juvenile drug courts. Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB61%20SUB1%20enr.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=61


• Senate Bill 93. Relating to escape from custody of Director of Juvenile Services. Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb93%20sub1%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=93


• Senate Bill 186. Relating to issuing a subpoena to aid in criminal investigations involving crimes of a sexual nature against minors which involves use of electronic communications system or service or remote computing service. Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB186%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=186


• Senate Bill 216. Modifying term “imminent danger to physical well-being of a child.” Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_history.cfm?year=2011&sessiontype=RS


• House Bill 2693. Requiring insurance coverage for autism spectrum disorders. Legislative action completed. Reference: Enrolled bill not available.


• House Bill 2750. Adding consideration of sexual assault in issuing an order to temporarily or permanently end a parent-child relationship. Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2750%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=2750


• House Bill 2864. Creating a misdemeanor crime of unlawful restraint in the first and second degree. Legislative action completed.  Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2864%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=2864

Crimes

• Senate Bill 213. Relating to crimes using computers, telephones and electronic devices. Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB213%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=213


• House Bill 2505. Adding synthetic cannabinoids and hallucinogens and stimulants to the Schedule I list of controlled substances (K2). Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_tex

Public Records/Ethics Commission

• House Bill 2464. Adding additional requirements to the Ethics Act. Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2464%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=2464 

Miscellaneous

• Senate Bill 234. Revising the Municipal Economic Opportunity Development District Act. Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=SB234%20SUB1%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=234


• Senate Bill 235. Revising County Economic Opportunity Development District Act. Legislative action completed.Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb235%20sub1%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=235


• Senate Bill 243. Relating to Neighborhood Investment Program Act. Legislative action completed. Reference: Enrolled bill not available.


• Senate Bill 465. Creating Marcellus Gas and Manufacturing Development Act. Completed legislative action. Reference: Enrolled bill not available.


• Senate Bill 570. Creating Volunteer for Nonprofit Youth Organizations Act. Legislative action completed. Reference: Enrolled bill not available.


• House Bill 2475. Including certain records of the Division of Juvenile Services in the exemptions from disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2475%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=2475


• House Bill 2520.Relating to centers for housing young adult offenders. Legislative action completed. Reference: Enrolled Bill Not Available.


• House Bill 2525. Relating to the practice of social work. Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB2525%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=2525


• House Bill 3205. Reducing jail sentence for successful completion of education and rehabilitation programs. Legislative action completed. Reference: http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB3205%20SUB%20ENR.htm&yr=2011&sesstype=RS&i=3205