Bill Text: WV HB2453 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Making the fifty percent discount on campground rental fees at state parks for West Virginia citizens sixty-two years of age or older available year-round
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-13 - To House Senior Citizen Issues [HB2453 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2011-HB2453-Introduced.html
(By Delegate Caputo)
[Introduced January 13, 2011; referred to the
Committee on Senior Citizen Issues then Finance.]
A BILL to amend and reenact §20-5-18 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to making the fifty percent discount on campground rental fees at state parks for West Virginia citizens sixty-two years of age or older available year-round.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §20-5-18 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. PARKS AND RECREATION.
§20-5-18. Discounts for West Virginia residents over the age of sixty-two.
The director shall provide to West Virginia citizens who are sixty-two years of age or older, and who document residency and age by a valid West Virginia driver's license, a fifty percent reduction in campground rental fees for each campsite to be used exclusively by
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to make the fifty percent discount on campground rental fees at state parks for West Virginia senior citizens available year-round, instead of during the "off- season" only.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.