Proposed West Virginia Firearm Legislation SB363
Legislation Overview
Title: Creating mobile training team for school safety
Subject: Education (Higher): Education (K12)
Description: The purpose of this bill is to create a mobile training team for the purpose of school safety. The bill provides for regional mobile training officers. The bill empowers the West Virginia Department of Homeland Security to create the program. The bill provides for coordination between school protection officers and the mobile training team. The bill permits elementary and secondary school teachers and administrators to carry concealed weapons. The bill classifies such persons who carry concealed weapons as school protection officers. The bill provides that any teacher or administrator may become a school protection officer. The bill provides for requirements and exceptions. The bill provides for an incentive in the form of a bonus to be given to school protection officers. Finally, the bill provides that this incentive may be revoked if school protection officers lose their classification.
Session: 2024 Regular Session
Last Action: To Education
Last Action Date: January 12, 2024
Sponsors
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1 sponsors: Jay Taylor (R);
Percentage of Senate sponsoring bill: 3% (1 of 34)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| Senate | Jan 12, 2024 | Filed for introduction |
| Senate | Jan 12, 2024 | Introduced in Senate |
| Senate | Jan 12, 2024 | To Education |
| Senate | Jan 11, 2024 | To Education then Judiciary |
Texts
| Type | Date | State Link | Text |
| Introduced | not available | state link | bill text |
Amendments
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Votes - Click on description to view vote roll call
There have not been any votes on this bill
Link: link to state bill page
