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WV HB4578

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

1/20/2026

Primary Sponsor

Wayne Clark

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Origin

House of Delegates

2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Grants county boards authority to use contracted employees when local expertise or staffing is limited for teaching positions
  • Removes requirement that teachers returning from leave must be restored to the exact same position, instead guaranteeing restoration to a position with retained seniority and privileges
  • Allows superintendents to reassign or transfer professional and service personnel at any time during the school year to meet documented student, instructional, operational, or programmatic needs
  • Changes service personnel hiring criteria from seniority-based to qualifications, evaluations, principal recommendations, and faculty senate input
  • Restricts Freedom of Information Act public records requests to West Virginia residents only and removes prohibition on charging search or retrieval fees

Legislative Description

To provide more local control over educational decisionmaking, differentiation of funding for counties, and to address operational efficiencies within education.

Education (K12)

Last Action

To House Education

1/20/2026

Committee Referrals

Education1/20/2026

Full Bill Text

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