Bill Text: WV HB2689 | 2015 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Repealing the provision prohibiting employers from discriminating for use of tobacco products

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-11 - To House Health and Human Resources [HB2689 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2015-HB2689-Introduced.html

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H. B. 2689

 

                        (By Delegates Fast, Kessinger, Hill, Weld, J. Nelson and Kurcaba)

                        [Introduced February 11, 2015; referred to the

                        Committee on Health and Human Resources then the Judiciary.]

 

 

 

 

A BILL to repeal §21-3-19 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to employer discrimination for use of tobacco products.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 3. SAFETY AND WELFARE OF EMPLOYEES.

§1. Repeal of section relating to prohibiting employers from discriminating for use of tobacco products.

            §21-3-19 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, is hereby repealed.

 

 

            NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to repeal the provision prohibiting employers from discriminating for use of tobacco products.