West Virginia legislation · 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia HB2167: Relating to public charter schools code provisions
Status: Passed both chambers, April 25, 2025
The purpose of this bill is to provide for technical cleanup of certain provisions of the public charter school code provisions.
What the bill says
An act to amend and reenact §18- 5G-3, §18-5G-4, and §18-5G-7 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; and to amend the code by adding a new section, designated §18-5G-14a, relating to providing that public charter schools may not charge full-time tuition and may only charge such tuition or fees as may be imposed by noncharter public schools in this state, such as for part-time Hope Scholarship enrollment or for participation in student activities; allowing public charter schools to employ personnel to perform services relating to managing its employees' participation in the retirement.
From the enrolled text, April 11, 2025:
AN ACT to amend and reenact §18- 5G-3, §18-5G-4, and §18-5G-7 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended; and to amend the code by adding a new section, designated §18-5G-14a, relating to providing that public charter schools may not charge full-time tuition and may only charge such tuition or fees as may be imposed by noncharter public schools in this state, such as for part-time Hope Scholarship enrollment or for participation in student activities; allowing public charter schools to employ personnel to perform services relating to managing its employees' participation in the retirement system or insurance plan; assigning responsibility for tracking the student when a parent or guardian withdraws the student from a public charter school and imposing notification of withdraw requirement on public charter school in certain instances; providing that public charter school teachers who are not certified or licensed are permitted to proctor state assessment under certain conditions; providing for a different application deadline in the case of a conversion public charter school or a program conversion public charter school; allowing a public charter school governing board member to be removed by a vote of the governing board; allowing alternative high-risk population public charter schools to be authorized and funded under public charter school article; providing eligibility requirements to be an alternative high-risk population public charter …