West Virginia HB 4425: Authorize a law school program at Marshall University

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WEST 
VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2022 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 4425

By Delegates Rohrbach, Steele, 
Linville, Fast, Worrell, Lovejoy, Mandt, Hornbuckle, Pack and Wamsley

[Introduced on January 31, 
2022; 

Referred to the Committee on Education then Finance]

A BILL to amend and 
reenact §18B-1-8b of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to 
establishing a college of law at Marshall University Graduate College; and 
requiring a revised strategic plan.

Be it enacted by the 
Legislature of West Virginia:

article 2B. Governance. 

§18B-1-8b. Marshall 
University Graduate College.

(a) Notwithstanding any 
other provisions of this code to the contrary, the West Virginia graduate 
college shall cease to be an individual higher education institution, as 
defined by subsection (h), section two, article one of this chapter and shall 
be merged and consolidated with Marshall university, effective July 1, 1994.

(b) The graduate programs 
of Marshall university shall be operated under the same procedures, policies, 
rules and practices utilized by Marshall university and the board of trustees 
in operating Marshall university: Provided, That the board of trustees shall 
assure that the president of Marshall university adopts policies, procedures 
and standards for its graduate programs that facilitate the multiple missions 
of the graduate college in serving traditional and nontraditional students and 
providing graduate instruction throughout the state. Nothing herein shall be 
interpreted to abrogate the power or responsibility of the board of trustees to 
approve and review graduate programs offered within the university system, nor 
to limit the statewide mission of West Virginia University or any other 
institution.

(c) The president of 
Marshall university shall appoint the head of the graduate college, who shall 
report directly to the president of Marshall university.

(d) Nothing contained 
herein shall be interpreted to authorize the provision or expansion of any 
four-year programs offered by Marshall university to any sites formerly 
offering graduate school courses by the West Virginia graduate college.

(e) It is the intent of the 
Legislature that the program review and approval process for campus offerings 
for graduate education by the graduate college of Marshall university be 
separate and distinct from the process for the approval of undergraduate 
education program offerings.

(f) It is the intent of 
the Legislature that the integrity and quality of legal education in West 
Virginia requires that an additional three-year college of law be established 
and that it shall be established at Marshall University Graduate College. The 
Marshall University college of law shall become a fully integrated division of 
Marshall University. 

(f) (g) It is the Legislature’s intent that, 
through the fiscal year 2000-2001, the proportionate share of the funds which 
would have been generated by the board of trustees resource allocation policy 
for the West Virginia graduate college shall be allocated to the Marshall 
university graduate college. It is further the intent of the Legislature that 
the merger and consolidation of West Virginia graduate college and Marshall 
university shall not result in any financial gain or loss to the board of 
trustees or any institution within the university system in the appropriation 
decisions by the Legislature.

(g) (h) It is the intent of the Legislature that 
Marshall university and the Marshall university graduate college each 
receive any increase in state appropriated funds for the fiscal year beginning 
July 1, 1997, set out in section one-c, article one of this chapter, and 
further, that they shall not be denied any increas