West Virginia House Bill 4572 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: Introduced on February 17 2014 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2014-02-17 - To House Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to create the Citizen Enforcement of Clean Water Act. The bill makes findings. The bill permits actions by citizens. The bill sets forth jurisdiction and venue. The bill permits citizens to sue the state, its departments, agencies and political subdivisions. The bill establishes standing. The bill provides that exhaustion of remedies not required. The bill permits citizens to intervene in actions by the state. The bill sets forth consent decree requirements. The bill provides for court costs and attorney fees. The bill requires that it be liberally construed. The bill provides that the actions under common law are not precluded. The bill provides for severability. This section is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.

Creating the Citizen Enforcement of Clean Water Act

Del. Stephen Skinner [D]

Del. Timothy Manchin [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2014-02-17	House	To House Judiciary
2014-02-17	House	Introduced in House
2014-02-17	House	To Judiciary
2014-02-17	House	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
22	30	1	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4572&year=2014&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb4572%20intr.htm&yr=2014&sesstype=RS&i=4572