West Virginia House Bill 2608 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2018 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2018-01-10 - To House Roads and Transportation
Pending: House Roads & Transportation Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of Highways to contract with private providers or contractors for emergency maintenance operations if the Division of Highways cannot complete operations in a timely manner; to create a provisional appointment procedure for Division of Highway positions necessary for snow and ice removal from roadways; to authorize the Division of Highways to solicit applications and appoint qualified applicants to provisional snow and ice removal positions pending permanent appointment; to exempt provisionary appointments for snow and ice removal services from State Personnel Board Procedures and oversight; to create a process by which individual provisionary snow and ice removal appointees shall be converted to permanent employees within the classified service system once certain requirements are met; and to require the Division of Highways to follow ethical guidelines and certain practices when posting provisional appointments and making provisional appointments to snow and ice removal positions.

Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to contract with private providers or contractors for certain emergency maintenance operations

Del. Joseph Statler [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2018-01-10	House	To House Roads and Transportation
2018-01-10	House	Introduced in House
2018-01-10	House	To Roads and Transportation then Finance
2018-01-10	House	Filed for introduction

HB2608 (Carry Over) 2017-02-21 - To House Roads and Transportation

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
17	2A	8d	New Code	See Bill Text
29	6	4a	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2608&year=2018&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2608%20intr.htm&yr=2018&sesstype=RS&i=2608