SB 220 West Virginia Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Authorizing child sexual abuse and sexual violence prevention program and in-service training in child sexual abuse prevention

SB 220 requires public schools in West Virginia to provide annual, age-appropriate instruction on child sexual abuse prevention (grades 3-6), personal safety/assault prevention (grades 3-6), and dating/sexual violence prevention (grades 7-12). Schools must notify parents one week before personal safety lessons and allow opt-outs for students. The bill also mandates that all public school employees complete a four-hour, trauma-informed training every three years on recognizing abuse, responding to disclosures, and preventing victimization. These requirements are voluntary for public charter schools and nonpublic schools.

Issues: ✓ Education

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Feb 12, 2025 Last action Mar 17, 2025

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What changed between versions

Introduced Version → Committee Substitute · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill was amended from an introduced version to a committee substitute version, primarily changing the header information, bill title description, and adding a new subsection (c) that makes the requirements voluntary for public charter schools and nonpublic schools. The substantive educational and training requirements for public schools remain largely unchanged.

Scope change

The bill's scope was expanded to include public charter schools and nonpublic schools, but with a significant modification: the requirements are now voluntary for these institutions rather than mandatory.

ELIGIBILITY

Added new subsection (c) making the child sexual abuse prevention and employee training requirements voluntary for public charter schools and nonpublic schools, whereas they were previously only applicable to public schools.

TECHNICAL

Updated bill title description to reflect the new voluntary provision for charter and nonpublic schools.

Changed committee reporting date from 'referred to the Committee Education; and then to the Committee on the Judiciary' to 'Reported March 12, 2025, from the Committee on Education'.

Removed introductory note about bill purpose and replaced with standard legislative formatting and navigation links typical of committee substitute versions.

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Committee

Mar 17, 2025

Committee

Referred to Rules on 2nd reading

upper

Mar 12, 2025

Upper · Passed

Committee substitute reported, but first to Judiciary

upper

Feb 12, 2025

Committee

To Education

upper

Feb 12, 2025

Introduced

Introduced in Senate

upper

Feb 12, 2025

Committee

To Education then Judiciary

upper

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors