West Virginia House Bill 2583 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)
Status: Introduced on February 21 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-02-21 - To House Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to protect an employee’s wages or salaries from being withheld or diverted for political activities without the express, written authorization of the employee. The bill makes clear that it is unlawful for any person to coerce or intimidate any employee into making a political contribution or engaging in political activities. The bill also makes it an unfair labor practice for any labor organization to use agency shop fees paid for by nonmembers for contributions or expenditures to influence an election without the authorization of the individual.

Relating to limitations on the use of wages and agency shop fees by employers and labor organization for political activities

Del. Geoff Foster [R]	Del. Saira Blair [R]	Del. Joshua Higginbotham [R]	Del. Kayla Kessinger [R]
Del. Jill Upson [R]	Del. Eric Householder [R]	Sen. Eric Nelson [R]	Del. Paul Espinosa [R]
Del. John Overington [R]	Del. Ron Walters [R]	Del. Daryl Cowles [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-02-21	House	To House Judiciary
2017-02-21	House	Introduced in House
2017-02-21	House	To Judiciary
2017-02-21	House	Filed for introduction

HB2583 (Carry Over) 2017-02-21 - To House Judiciary
SB239 (Similar To) 2017-04-09 - Vetoed by Governor 4/26/17 - Senate Journal

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
21	1A	4	Amended Code	Citation Text
21	5	1	Amended Code	Citation Text
3	8	12	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2583&year=2017&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2583%20intr.htm&yr=2017&sesstype=RS&i=2583