West Virginia has received 2,500 donated signs reading “In God We Trust” for schools to hang up in order to meet requirements set in a new law passed during the 2025 regular session of the Legislature.

Senate Bill 280 required all public primary and secondary schools, as well as institutions of higher education, to display the United States motto in a “conspicuous location” in a main building of the school that is accessible to the public.

The bill was sponsored by Sen. Mike Azinger, R-Wood, and became law this year after being introduced in the Legislature but failing to pass for several years previously. Gov. Patrick Morrisey, a Republican, celebrated the law’s passage at a bill signing in April. The law went into effect on July 11.

SB 280 did not include any mechanism to fund purc

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