West Virginia HB 2004: Providing for a program of instruction in workforce preparedness

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WEST virginia legislature

2019 regular session

ENROLLED

Committee Substitute

for

House Bill 2004

By Delegates 
Espinosa, Graves, Harshbarger, Foster, Worrell, Hanna, Dean, Sypolt, Hamrick 
and Howell

[Passed March 8, 2019; in effect ninety days from passage.]

AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as 
amended, by adding thereto two new sections, designated §18-2-7d and §18-2-42; 
to amend and reenact section §18B-3C-4 of said code; to amend said code by 
adding thereto a new article, designated §21-1E-1, §21-1E-2, §21-1E-3 and 
§21-1E-4; to amend and reenact section §29-3-9 of said code; and to amend said 
code by adding thereto a new article, designated §30-1E-1, §30-1E-2, §30-1E-3 
and §30-1E-4, all relating to requiring a state board rule that adopts a 
program of instruction in general workforce and career preparedness; providing 
career and technical education program information to students and parents; 
requiring transcript of certain post-secondary credits earned by public school 
students to be provided to them; ensuring that certain career technical 
education students are eligible to participate in the graduation ceremony in 
the same manner as all other students in the district; elevating priority on 
program integration to meet region and state labor market needs by community 
and technical college/career and technical education consortia; requiring the 
facilitating institution to annually submit the Carl D. Perkins local planning 
guide to the Council for Community and Technical College Education and State 
Board of Education; providing for joint State Board and Council for Community 
and Technical College Education guidelines on administration of the code 
section requiring the formation of community and technical college/career and 
technical education consortia; providing joint responsibility of State 
Superintendent and Chancellor for certain activities and reporting; requiring 
standards and procedures for recognizing career technical training acquired in 
public schools, apprenticeships and training programs toward occupational 
testing, certification and/or licensure; establishing purpose and intent; 
providing definitions; requiring rules providing standards and procedures be 
proposed by Commissioner of Labor, State Fire Commission, State Fire Marshal 
and the professions and occupations licensing boards and commissions.

Be it enacted by the 
Legislature of West Virginia:

CHAPTER 18. EDUCATION.

ARTICLE 2. STATE BOARD 
OF EDUCATION.

§18-2-7d. Program in workforce preparedness.

(a) The Legislature 
finds that, in addition to specialized skills relating to specific professions 
and trades, students will be better prepared to enter the workforce and succeed 
in their chosen fields of employment or education by having the opportunity to 
participate in training related to general workforce preparedness, productive 
workplace skills and processes, time management and efficiency, and teamwork 
and leadership competencies in the workplace. The Legislature further finds 
that employers in the state are the best source for articulating the general 
skills and attributes they, in common, seek in future employees and that 
employers may collaborate in the development of a graduate profile 
incorporating these skills and attributes.

(b) The state board 
shall promulgate a rule pursuant to 29A-3B-1 et seq. of this code 
that adopts a program of instruction in general workforce and career 
preparedness for all students. The program of instruction shall include 
guidelines for schools working through their local school improvement councils 
and business partners to communicate to studen