West Virginia House Bill 4255 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 22 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-01-22 - To House Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

This bill was recommended for introduction and passage by the Joint Legislative Oversight Commission on State Water Resources. The purpose of this bill is to amend the Water Resources Protection and Management Act to incorporate recommendations from the State Water Resources Management Plan (Plan). Those recommendations include: Changing the definition of a large-quantity user to a person who uses at least 300,000 gallons of water in any thirty-day period; Requiring large-quantity users to report actual water withdrawals or usage for a calendar year on an annual basis; Requiring any agency that contributes to funding the stream gage network to notify the Commission and the USGS if the agency cannot maintain its level of funding; Requiring drilling contractors or well owners to report the depth to groundwater of drilled wells; adopting the Plan; and Requiring the Department of Environmental Protection to report annually to the Commission on the implementation of the Plan and survey results.

Water Resources Protection and Management Act

Del. Michael Manypenny [D]	Sen. Jason Barrett [R]	Del. Don Perdue [D]	Del. George Ambler [R]
Sen. Bill Hamilton [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-01-22	House	To House Judiciary
2014-01-22	House	Introduced in House
2014-01-22	House	To Judiciary
2014-01-22	House	Filed for introduction

SB355 (Same As) 2014-01-15 - To Natural Resources
SB373 (Similar To) 2014-04-14 - Chapter 187, Acts, Regular Session, 2014

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
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22	26	8	Amended Code	Citation Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4255&year=2014&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4255%20intr.htm&yr=2014&sesstype=RS&i=4255