Bill Text: WV HB2378 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the hiring of substitute service personnel by county school boards
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-13 - To House Education [HB2378 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2013-HB2378-Introduced.html
(By Delegates Hatfield, Caputo,
Walters, Martin, Argento and Perdue)
[Introduced February 13, 2009; referred to the
Committee on Energy, Industry and Labor, Economic Development and Small Business then Government Organization.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §29-3B-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the removal of the exemption for government employees performing electrical work on government property from having to possess an electrician's license.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §29-3B-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 3B. SUPERVISION OF ELECTRICIANS.
§29-3B-3. Exemptions; nonapplicability of license requirements; legislative rules for limited reciprocity.
(a) This article does not apply to and no license may be required for: (1) A person who performs electrical work with respect to any property owned or leased by that person; (2) a person who performs electrical work at any manufacturing plant or other industrial establishment as an employee of the person, firm or corporation operating the plant or establishment; (3) a person who performs electrical work while employed by an employer who engages in the business of selling appliances at retail, so long as such electrical work is performed incident to the installation or repair of appliances sold by the employer; or (4) a person who, while employed by a public utility or its affiliate, performs electrical work in connection with the furnishing of public utility service.
(b) (1) Notwithstanding any other contrary provision of this article
(2) The State Fire Marshal shall propose rules for legislative approval in accordance with
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to remove the exemption of government employees doing electrical work on government property from having to possess an electrician's license.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.