Bill Text: WV HB3072 | 2021 | Regular Session | Engrossed
Bill Title: Sunset the Board of Forestry
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-04-10 - Removed from calendar by Rules Committee [HB3072 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2021-HB3072-Engrossed.html
WEST virginia legislature
2021 regular session
ENGROSSED
Committee Substitute
for
House Bill 3072
By Delegates Steele and Foster
[Originating in the Committee on Government Organization; March 26, 2021]
Chapter 19. Agriculture.
ARticle 1A. Division of Forestry.
§19-1A-7. Maintaining a voluntary list of foresters; rulemaking.
(a) The Director of the Division of Forestry may maintain a list of consulting foresters and forest technicians in this state meeting the educational criteria to be considered a forester or forest technician in this state and publish such list on its website in a clear location. To be considered a forester, a person must have a four-year bachelor’s degree or equivalent from an accredited forestry or related program from any college or university or a combination of a two-year associate degree or equivalent in a forestry technician or related program and relevant required work experience. To be considered a forest technician, a person must hold a two-year associate degree or equivalent from a school with an accredited forestry technician or related program.
(b) Any person who is or holds himself or herself out to be a forester or forest technician may submit information reasonably required by the director to cause his or her name to be placed on a list maintained on the Division of Forestry’s website. Nothing in this section requires the director to place a person on a voluntary list.
(c) The division may prescribe rules pursuant to §29A-3-1 et seq., of this code relating to forms and applications to be placed on the list and may prescribe a rule to collect a fee from any person desiring to be placed on the list for the sole purpose of cost recovery.
Chapter 30. Professions and Occupations.
ARticle 19. Foresters.
§30-19-18. Sunset provision; effective date.
The state Board of Registration of Foresters established in this article shall terminate on June 30, 2022, unless continued by the Legislature. Pursuant to the provisions of §4-10-12 and §4-10-13 of this code the board shall commence all necessary activities pertinent to the wind-up of all board related activities. This section shall become effective July 1, 2021.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.