West Virginia legislation · 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia HB2755: To provide that the West Virginia Board of Education may promulgate rules or policies to be submitted to the Legislature for review
Status: Passed both chambers, April 12, 2025
The purpose of this bill allows the Board of Education promulgate rules for submission to the Legislature.
What the bill says
An act to amend and reenact §29A-3B-8, §29A-3B-9, §29A-3B-10, and §29A-3B-11 Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to requiring the State Board of Education to submit newly promulgated rules to the Legislature through the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability; allowing the Legislature to approve, amend, or reject, in whole or in part, these rules in a manner prescribed by general law and pursuant to this article; adjusting the time frames for the State Board of Education to submit emergency rules to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountabi.
From the enrolled text, April 12, 2025:
AN ACT to amend and reenact §29A-3B-8, §29A-3B-9, §29A-3B-10, and §29A-3B-11 Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to requiring the State Board of Education to submit newly promulgated rules to the Legislature through the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability; allowing the Legislature to approve, amend, or reject, in whole or in part, these rules in a manner prescribed by general law and pursuant to this article; adjusting the time frames for the State Board of Education to submit emergency rules to the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education Accountability; and providing for the expiration of those emergency rules if notice is not timely filed with the committee. ARTICLE 3B. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION RULEMAKING. §29A-3B-1. Findings; definitions. (a) The Legislature (2) That section one, article twelve of the West Virginia Constitution remains identical today as it was when the constitution was adopted in 1872, where the Legislature exercising its authority under section one, article twelve of "Education", created the four-member West Virginia Board of Examiners in 1905. This was followed by the West Virginia Board of Education in 1908, and then the Legislature abolished that board and created a new State Board of Education in 1919; (3) That the constitutional amendment of 1958 transferred the already established authority from the elected state superintendent to the West Virginia Board …