West Virginia Senate Bill 24 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 14 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-02-25 - Recommitted to Judiciary on 3rd reading
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

Sen. Craig Blair [R]

Sen. Ed Gaunch [R]

Sen. Dave Sypolt [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-25	Senate	Recommitted to Judiciary on 3rd reading
2015-02-25	Senate	On 3rd reading
2015-02-24	Senate	Read 2nd time
2015-02-24	Senate	On 2nd reading
2015-02-23	Senate	Read 1st time
2015-02-23	Senate	Immediate consideration
2015-02-23	Senate	Reported do pass
2015-01-14	Senate	To Judiciary
2015-01-14	Senate	Introduced in Senate
2015-01-14	Senate	To Judiciary
2015-01-14	Senate	Filed for introduction

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=24&year=2015&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb24%20intr.htm&yr=2015&sesstype=RS&i=24