West Virginia Senate

Updated on April 9, 2021 at 10:45 a.m. A bill to restrict transgender students' access to women's sports in middle, high school and college has passed out of the West Virginia Senate. The bill passed 18-15 and now heads back to the House for consideration.

The West Virginia Senate has passed a bill that requires county school boards and county superintendents to comply with instructions given by the state Board of Education.

A bill that would establish publicly funded education savings accounts in West Virginia to support private and homeschooling has passed the West Virginia Senate. The legislation passed the House of Delegates two weeks before and could soon be on the governor’s desk for a signature.

A bill expanding West Virginia’s current charter school law is now heading back to the House of Delegates after seeing a handful of changes in the Senate.

A bill expanding on West Virginia’s public charter school law is now back, in part, to an earlier version that was passed by the House of Delegates last week.

The West Virginia Senate passed a bill Wednesday that would create a new layer in the state court system for civil cases. As lawmakers noted, the push for an intermediate court of appeals has been a perennial issue at the statehouse for years.

Eleven Eastern Panhandle lawmakers met Friday morning to discuss top priorities for the upcoming legislative session. Among them: education, broadband and tax reform.

Live results for the West Virginia Senate races in the November 3, 2020 general election.

Half of the 34 seats in the West Virginia Senate are on the ballot this election and many of the races this cycle are expected to be highly competitive. While Republicans currently hold the upper chamber, Democrats are hoping to make gains and possibly take the majority.

Editor’s Note: A previous version of this story was published on March 18. On March 19, WVPB made the decision to unpublish the story from our website in…