HB 2355 West Virginia House of Delegates · 2025 Regular Session

Permitting middle or high school students to participate in travel sports teams without repercussion.

HB 2355 allows middle and high school students in West Virginia to participate in travel sports teams without facing penalties from school athletic programs. The bill prohibits the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission from taking adverse action against students who compete in both public school sports and travel teams. To comply, students must notify both their public school coach and travel coach about their dual participation, and they must prioritize their public school athletic schedule if conflicts arise. This directly affects student athletes in public schools who also join outside travel sports organizations.

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Feb 13, 2025 Last action Mar 28, 2025

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Introduced Version → Committee Substitute · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill was amended to clarify that student athletes participating in travel sports must give notice to both their public school and travel coaches, give deference to public school programs when scheduling conflicts arise, and allow public school coaches to also serve as travel coaches if they choose. This adds procedural requirements and flexibility to the original version that only prohibited adverse actions against travel sports athletes.

Scope change

The bill's scope remains focused on protecting student athletes in travel sports from adverse actions, but now includes specific operational requirements for how public and travel programs interact.

REQUIREMENT

Added requirement that student athletes must notify both public school and travel coaches of their joint participation in travel sports

Added requirement that student athletes must give deference to public school programs when scheduling conflicts arise between public school athletics and travel sports

Added provision allowing public school coaches to also serve as travel sports coaches if they choose

ENFORCEMENT

Expanded the prohibition on adverse actions to include discriminatory actions against travel sports athletes

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Committee

Mar 24, 2025

Lower · Passed

By substitute, do pass

lower

Feb 13, 2025

Committee

To House Education

lower

Feb 13, 2025

Introduced

Introduced in House

lower

Feb 13, 2025

Committee

To Education

lower

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