Bill Text: WV HB2175 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requiring certain licensees to take continuing education in green building
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-13 - To House Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business [HB2175 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2013-HB2175-Introduced.html
(By Delegates Manypenny, Fleischauer and Stephens)
[Introduced February 13, 2013; referred to the
Committee on Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business then the Judiciary.]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §21-11-20; and to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §30-38-20; and to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §30-40-29, all relating to continuing education; requiring certain licensees to take continuing education in green building.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §21-11-20; that said code be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §30-38-20; and that said code be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §30-40-29, all to read as follows:
CHAPTER 21. LABOR.
ARTICLE 11. WEST VIRGINIA CONTRACTOR LICENSING ACT.
§21-11-20. Required continuing education.
A licensee shall take a four-hour course concerning green or energy efficient building, or both, in order to renew his or her license.
ARTICLE 38. THE REAL ESTATE APPRAISER LICENSING AND CERTIFICATION ACT.
§30-38-20. Required continuing education.
__________Four hours of a licensee's current continuing education requirement shall inform a licensee on how to appraise green or energy efficient real estate, or both.
ARTICLE 40. WEST VIRGINIA REAL ESTATE LICENSE ACT.
§30-40-29. Required continuing education.
__________Four hours of licensee current continuing education requirement shall inform a licensee on green or energy efficient homes, or both.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require contractors, real estate appraisers and real estate agents to take, as part of their continuing education requirement, four hours concerning green and/or energy efficient building.
These sections are new; therefore, they have been completely underscored.