SCR27 - Affirming power of states to repel invasions for our nation's security

8 Co-Sponsors

SB431 - Relating to verification of legal employment status of workers

3 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill generally relates to the verification of the legal employment status of workers. The bill modifies findings and policy. The bill adds to definitions. The bill clarifies that work authorization status is verified by the E-Verify system. The bill modifies record-keeping requirements. The bill provides for the suspension or revocation of license. The bill creates penalties for the failure to comply. The bill provides for defenses. Finally, the bill provides for enforcement by the Attorney General and Division of Labor.

SCR35 - Requesting study on efficiency and accountability of county boards of education

13 Co-Sponsors

SB172 - Revising requirements of local school improvement councils

6 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill generally relates to Local School Improvement Councils. The bill revises council membership requirements. The bill requires minutes be taken at every council meeting. The bill revises requirements pertaining to annual council meeting regarding the school's academic performance. The bill requires training on the role and governance of the councils and the production of a document on parent and community leader roles in the councils. Finally, the bill allows public charter schools to abide by all or some of the local school improvement council requirements.

SB870 - Restoring Sanity Act

8 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill is to establish the Anti-Woke Act; prohibit a school district, a public charter school, the West Virginia Board of Education, the West Virginia Department of Education, or any employee of the aforementioned entities from providing instruction in, requiring instruction in, making part of a course, or requiring a statement or affirmation by any employee certain concepts; prohibit a state institution of higher education and an employee of a state institution of higher education from requiring a student or employee to take instruction in, or include in the curriculum of any required course, or require a statement or affirmation by any student or employee that certain concepts are factual and accurate or must be held as a belief of the student or employee; provide that county board and public charter school employees are not required to use student's preferred pronoun when referring to the student if the preferred pronoun is not consistent with the student's biological sex; prohibit a state institution of higher education from establishing, sustaining, supporting, or staffing a diversity, equity, and inclusion officer or office; and declare the policy of the state that the administrations of state institutions of higher education, and their administrative units, be officially neutral with regard to certain widely contested opinions.

SB478 - Establishing Energy Intensive Industrial or Manufacturing Consumer Tax Credit

3 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill is to establish the Energy Intensive Industrial or Manufacturing Consumer Tax Credit.

SB2031 - Supplementary appropriation to School Building Authority, School Construction Fund

2 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this supplemental appropriation bill is to supplement, amend, and add a new item of appropriation in the aforesaid account for the designated spending unit for expenditure during the fiscal year 2025.

SB608 - Relating to Emergency Medical Services Retirement System

6 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill is to clarify EMSRS surviving spouse benefits when member dies from duty or non-duty related cause, and to clarify how to compute a retiree's age when the member elected an early retirement and then returned to work.

SJR8 - Cannabis Legalization Amendment

0 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this resolution is to allow citizens to possess for personal consumption up to two ounces, or up to four plants of cannabis; to allow the Legislature to regulate the manufacture and sale of cannabis; and to provide dismissal and expungement of prior convictions for possession of cannabis.

SB355 - Relating to spousal privilege

5 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill is to expand the spousal exception and allow for adverse testimony by a spouse when the defendant spouse has committed a crime against "any child" in addition to a child of either spouse.

SB606 - Relating to Natural Resources Police Officers Retirement System

4 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill is to remove the cap on the NRPORS employer contribution and clarifies surviving spouse benefits when a member dies from a duty or non-duty related cause.

SB253 - Establishing minimum student enrollment for school aid formula

6 Co-Sponsors

SB875 - Relating to certain insurance coverage provided by BRIM

10 Co-Sponsors

SB675 - Establishing accreditation deadline for convention and visitors bureaus

1 Co-Sponsor

The purpose of this bill is to require convention and visitor's bureaus to receive accreditation from an accrediting body on or before June 30, 2026, in order to be eligible for distribution of net proceeds of hotel-motel tax.

SB614 - Relating to elementary behavior intervention and safety

6 Co-Sponsors

The purpose of this bill is to address elementary behavior intervention and safety; specify requirements applicable to when a grade kindergarten through six teacher in an elementary setting determines that the behavior of a student is violent, threatening, or intimidating toward staff or peers or creates an unsafe learning environment or impedes on other students' ability to learn in a safe environment; and provide that nothing herein may be construed to be in conflict with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.