The bill aims to amend and reenact section 18-2-25 of the Code of West Virginia, establishing the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission Reform Act. It grants public charter schools the authority to control, supervise, and regulate all extracurricular activities for their students, while allowing them to delegate interscholastic athletic events and band activities to the West Virginia Secondary School Activities Commission. The commission will now consist of athletic directors or their representatives from participating secondary schools and will become a state agency, rather than a nonprofit corporation. The bill also modifies the rule-making procedures for the commission, requiring a competitive balance formula for school classification and ensuring that funds from the commission are considered public funds.

Additionally, the bill expands eligibility for extracurricular activities to include organized groups of nonpublic school students, such as those receiving home instruction or participating in the Hope Scholarship Program, and modifies the requirements for homeschool students and others to participate in these activities. It establishes that the executive director of the commission will be appointed by the Governor with Senate approval and will have the authority to investigate rule violations. The bill also ensures that existing commission rules remain in effect until amended or repealed, streamlining the governance of extracurricular activities in West Virginia's secondary schools.

Statutes affected:
Introduced Version: 18-2-25