Senate Education Committee Chair Grady optimistic about bill
By Steven Allen Adams for The Weirton Daily Times
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — After falling apart on the last day of the 2024 legislative session last year, a bill that passed the House of Delegates Monday addressing violent student behavior in elementary school grades could graduate by the end of the 2025 session.
The House of Delegates passed House Bill 2515 – relating to elementary behavior intervention and safety – in a 93-4 vote Monday morning. The bill now heads to the state Senate.
“House Bill 2515 specifies the requirements for when a grade kindergarten through sixth teacher determines that the behavior of a student is violent, threatening, or intimidating toward staff or peers, or creates an unsafe learning environment or impedes on other students’ ability to learn in a safe environment,” said House Education Committee Chairman Joe Ellington, R-Mercer. “The bill also provides for behavior intervention and safety for students in grades 6 through 12.”
