Bill Text: WV HB4516 | 2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Revoke spending authority for money used by an agency in support of a challenge to WV law

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-10 - To House Judiciary [HB4516 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2024-HB4516-Introduced.html

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WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2024 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 4516

By Delegate Linville

[Introduced January 10, 2024  ; Referred to
the Committee on the Judiciary]

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new article, designated §12-3-21, relating to establishing the revocation of authority for spending by an agency in support of a challenge to West Virginia law.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

 

ARTICLE 3.  LIMITATIONS ON AGENCY SPENDING.

§12-3-21. Limitation on agencies’ use of funding.

Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, there is no spending authority for any political subdivision or state agency for the purposes of challenging a West Virginia state law.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to prohibit spending authority for money used by an agency in support of a challenge to WV law.

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