WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE 2025 REGULAR SESSION Introduced House Bill 2697 By Delegates Dittman, Moore, Drennan, Pritt, Crouse, Mazzocchi, Petitte, Willis, Chiarelli, Stephens, and Miller [Introduced February 20, 2025; referred to the Committee on Education then Finance] A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new article, designated ยง18B-22-1, relating to forbidding all state-funded colleges, universities, and community colleges from charging students for transcripts. Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: ## article 22. Transcripts. No state-funded college, university, community college, or technical college may charge its students, former students, or graduates for transcripts. NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to forbid state-funded higher education institutions from charging for transcripts. Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.