By RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice, in his State of the State address last week, requested a “1 percent” across-the-board pay increase for West Virginia teachers in this year’s legislative session, with further 1 percent increases in each of the next four years. “That’s it?”[Read More…]
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Over Attorney General’s objections, West Virginia lawmakers renew push to control settlement funds
By ERIC EYRE Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. For a second consecutive year, West Virginia lawmakers are targeting Attorney General Patrick Morrisey’s use of lawsuit settlement funds. On Monday, the House Judiciary Committee advanced a measure (House Bill 4009) that aims to ensure the Legislature gets to spend settlement money as[Read More…]
Senate could be in agreement on community college access in West Virginia
By RUSTY MARKS NCWV Media CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Members of the West Virginia Senate appear to have their first bipartisan issue of the 2018 legislation session in a proposal to offer free community and technical college to state residents. Senate President Mitch Carmichael, R-Jackson, took the uncommon step of relinquishing[Read More…]
West Virginia Senate introduces Bill 284 to aid in community technical college initiative
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A bipartisan group of senators spoke during Monday’s floor session in favor of a bill that would increase access to career education and workforce training. The West Virginia Senate introduced Senate Bill 284 which creates the West Virginia Invests Grant Program, which has[Read More…]
House Finance discusses outcomes-based funding for higher education in West Virginia
By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Higher Education Policy Commission chancellor Paul Hill updated members of the House Finance Committee Monday on a study to move funding of state colleges and universities to an outcomes-based model. Under the proposal, 70 percent of funding would be based on credit[Read More…]
Legislators look at elections for West Virginia school board
By JOSELYN KING The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Record WHEELING, W.Va. — Members of the West Virginia Board of Education would be elected by the state’s voters under a bill introduced during the first week of the West Virginia Legislature’s annual session. There are 12 members of the state board, nine[Read More…]
West Virginia House bill for single-member districts advances
By TAYLOR STUCK The Herald-Dispatch CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia House of Delegates will soon hear a bill that would create 100, single-member districts from which delegates would be elected following the 2020 census. House Bill 4002 passed out of the House Judiciary Committee Monday afternoon after about two hours[Read More…]
House judiciary passes bill that would create 100 single-member West Virginia districts
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A bill that would create 100 single-member districts following the U.S. Census in 2020 now will go before the House of Delegates. The House Committee on the Judiciary passed Committee Substitute for House Bill 4002 in its Monday meeting following a lengthy debate[Read More…]
Funeral directors in West Virginia support new bill
By TAYLOR STUCK HD Media CHARLESTON, W.Va. — With the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources predicting more than 1,000 people died in 2017 of drug overdoses, it’s no surprise the indigent burial fund ran out of money last year with four months left. The burden to cover those[Read More…]
West Virginia auditor wants to give staff raises separate from governor’s proposal
By PHIL KABLER Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — In an extremely brief budget presentation Monday, state Auditor J.B. told the Senate Finance Committee he would return $1.5 million of unspent appropriations to the state’s general revenue fund, and said he wants to give his staff pay raises independent of the[Read More…]
