West Virginia legislation · 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia HB3024: Guaranteed course transfer bill
Status: Passed both chambers, April 12, 2025
The purpose of this bill is to provide for a comprehensive system of articulation and transfer of credit between and among the state's public institutions of higher education; to create and establish the duties of the statewide articulation and transfer advisory committee and its subcommittees; to mandate the acceptance of guaranteed statewide transfer pathways; to provide certain guarantees in the statewide articulation agreements; and to create and maintain degree transfer pathways, including those involving dual enrollment and career and technical education centers, that reduce the time and cost for students to earn a degree.
What the bill says
An act to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding a new section, designated §18B-14-5, relating to the guaranteed transfer of credit for courses completed in career pathways between high schools, career and technical education centers, community and technical colleges, and baccalaureate institutions; imposing duties on the Higher Education Policy Commission and the Council for Community and Technical College Education; establishing a statewide guaranteed transfer and articulation advisory committee; setting forth membership of the advisory committee; allowing for subcommit.
From the enrolled text, April 10, 2025:
AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding a new section, designated §18B-14-5, relating to the guaranteed transfer of credit for courses completed in career pathways between high schools, career and technical education centers, community and technical colleges, and baccalaureate institutions; imposing duties on the Higher Education Policy Commission and the Council for Community and Technical College Education; establishing a statewide guaranteed transfer and articulation advisory committee; setting forth membership of the advisory committee; allowing for subcommittees; requiring the commission and the council to oversee the development of a statewide articulation and guaranteed transfer agreement and setting forth parameters therefore; requiring the commission and the council, in collaboration with the advisory committee, to develop, coordinate, and maintain guaranteed degree transfer pathways for selected baccalaureate programs and the parameters therefore; setting forth additional requirements for guaranteed statewide transfer pathways; and requiring the commission and council to propose rules for legislative approval. ARTICLE 14. MISCELLANEOUS. §18B-14-5. Guaranteed transfer of credit for courses completed in career pathways between high schools, career and technical education centers, community and technical colleges and baccalaureate institutions. (a) The Legislature finds (2) Over 40 percent of bachelor's degree completers nationally attended more than one postsecondary institution, making student transfer a critical priority; and (3) Implementing a seamless education system with uniform guaranteed …