West Virginia legislation · 2026 Regular Session
West Virginia HB5663: Regarding venue for legal actions against the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission
Status: Introduced, February 17, 2026
What the bill says
To amend and reenact §18-2-25 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to legal actions involving the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission; requiring 30 days' notice of claims; establishing procedures for providing 30 days' notice of claims; providing for tolling of claims; providing exceptions for certain claims involving injunctive relief; and requiring actions to be brought and prosecuted only in Kanawha County. ARTICLE 2. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. §18-2-25. Authority of county boards to regulate athletic and other extracurricular activities of seconda.
From the introduced text:
A BILL to amend and reenact §18-2-25 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to legal actions involving the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission; requiring 30 days' notice of claims; establishing procedures for providing 30 days' notice of claims; providing for tolling of claims; providing exceptions for certain claims involving injunctive relief; and requiring actions to be brought and prosecuted only in Kanawha County. ARTICLE 2. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION. §18-2-25. Authority of county boards to regulate athletic and other extracurricular activities of secondary schools; delegation of authority to West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission; authority of commission; approval of rules by state board; incorporation; funds; participation by private and parochial schools and by home-schooled students and participants in the Hope Scholarship Program or in a Microschool or Learning Pod. (a) The county boards of education shall exercise the control, supervision, and regulation of all interscholastic athletic events, and other extracurricular activities of the students in public secondary schools, and of those schools of their respective counties. The county board of education may delegate control, supervision, and regulation of interscholastic athletic events and band activities to the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission. (b) The West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission is composed of the principals, or their representatives, of those secondary schools whose county boards …