Bill Text: WV HB2539 | 2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allowing private entities to lease buildings to local school boards in cases of emergency or condemnation

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-21 - To House Education [HB2539 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2019-HB2539-Introduced.html

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WEST virginia Legislature

2019 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 2539

By Delegates Kessinger and Foster

[Introduced January 21, 2019; Referred
to the Committee on Education.]

A BILL to amend and reenact §18-5-9 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to allowing private entities to lease buildings to local school boards in cases of emergency or condemnation.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 5. COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION.

§18-5-9. Schoolhouses, buildings and equipment; health of pupils; repairs; medical and dental clinics.

(a) The board shall provide:

(1) By purchase, lease, building or otherwise, a sufficient number of suitable schoolhouses and other buildings to meet the educational needs of its district;

(2) The necessary furniture, fixtures, apparatus, fuel and all necessary supplies for the schools;

(3) For the health and cleanliness of the pupils;

(4) For the repair and good order of the school grounds, buildings and equipment.

The board may also provide for medical and dental clinics.

(b) The board may lease buildings that meet existing standards from private organizations or businesses in cases of emergency or condemnation of existing school buildings.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to allow county boards of education to lease buildings that meet existing standards from private organizations or businesses in cases of emergency or condemnation.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.