Bill No. HB5362

Summary
Status
Sponsors
Texts
Votes
Amendments
Supplements
History
Summary

Bill ID

2111771

State

WV

Title

Relating to Hope Scholarships awards

Description

The purpose of this bill is to help to preserve funding for public schools and insure fairness in the use of Hope Scholarship funds; allowing Hope tuition reimbursements only to instate schools; establishing a family income eligibility schedule for Hope scholarships; requiring Hope recipients reimburse public schools the costs of providing individualized instruction programs; requiring Hope participants to utilize college exam and testing preparation course available in public school schools; requiring the state Board of Education to provide rules for implementation of cost and payment reimbursements for public school costs for services provided to Hope recipients; and to provide directives to assure county schools are reimbursed for services provided to Hope scholarship recipients.

Bill Type

Bill

Category

Change to Program, ESAs, Narrow or Eliminate Program, Increases Accountability

Session

2026 Regular Session

Special Session

No Data Available

Status

Current Status

Introduced

Status Last Updated

2026-02-09

Pending Committee

Calendar

No data available

Sponsors

Sponsors

D
Rep
Sean Hornbuckle
HD-025
1
0
D
Rep
Shawn Fluharty
HD-005
2
0
D
Rep
John Williams
HD-080
3
0
D
Rep
Anitra Hamilton
HD-081
4
0
D
Rep
Mike Pushkin
HD-054
5
0
D
Rep
Rick Garcia
HD-076
6
0
D
Rep
Hollis Lewis
HD-057
7
0

Texts

Texts

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Introduced
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https://legiscan.com/WV/text/HB5362/id/3352959

Votes

Votes

No data available

Amendments

Amendments

No data available

Supplements

Supplements

No data available

History

Progress

2026-02-09
Introduced
2026-02-09
Refer

History

2026-02-09
Filed for introduction
H
2026-02-09
To Education then Finance
H
2026-02-09
Introduced in House
H
2026-02-09
To House Education
H

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