Bill Text: WV HB2632 | 2021 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Permitting Commissioner of Highways to make transfers of money within the State Road Fund
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-03-05 - To House Finance [HB2632 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2021-HB2632-Introduced.html
WEST virginia legislature
2021 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 2632
By Delegate Criss
(BY REQUEST OF THE DIVISION OF HIGHWAYS)
[Introduced February 22, 2021; Referred to the Committee on Technology and Infrastructure then Finance]
A BILL to amend and reenact §17-3-2 of the West Virginia Code, 1931, as amended, relating to the use of the State Road Fund for state road purposes.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 3. STATE ROAD FUND.
§17-3-2.
Payment of state road costs from moneys received by commission commissioner.
The cost and expense of the
construction, reconstruction, improvement or maintenance of all state roads, and
other authorized state road purposes shall be paid out of any moneys
received by or appropriated to the state road commission for that purpose
commissioner of the Division of Highways for those purposes. Notwithstanding
any provision of this code to the contrary, the commissioner of the Division of
Highways has the authority to transfer funds within the state road fund to meet
the obligations and uses authorized for the fund.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the commissioner of the Division of Highways to realign spending as needed within the State Road Fund to more efficiently operate the division. The bill also cleans up outdated terms.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
