West Virginia House Bill 2942 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)
Status: Introduced on March 14 2013 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2013-03-14 - To House Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to prohibit public officials and employees from using public funds for self promotion. The bill prohibits knowingly and intentionally placing the names or likenesses of public officials and employees on trinkets. The bill prohibits knowingly and intentionally placing the names or likenesses of public officials and employees on certain publically-financed advertising during an election period. The bill makes these prohibitions violations of the West Virginia Governmental Ethics Act. The bill also defines terms.

Prohibiting public officials and employees from using public funds for self promotion

Del. Eric Householder [R]	Del. Kelli Sobonya [R]	Del. Marty Gearheart [R]	Sen. Karen Arvon [R]
Del. Suzette Raines [R]	Del. Linda Sumner [R]	Del. Anna Border-Sheppard [R]	Del. Paul Espinosa [R]
Del. John Shott [R]	Del. Steve Westfall [R]	Del. Cindy Frich [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-03-14	House	To House Judiciary
2013-03-14	House	Introduced in House
2013-03-14	House	To Judiciary then Finance
2013-03-14	House	Filed for introduction

SB536 (Same As) 2013-03-14 - To Government Organization

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
6B	1	3	Amended Code	Citation Text
6B	2	5	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2942&year=2013&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2942%20intr.htm&yr=2013&sesstype=RS&i=2942