Bill Text: WV SB324 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibiting Governor and Legislature from administering budget cuts to higher education
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-02-15 - To Judiciary [SB324 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2017-SB324-Introduced.html
WEST virginia Legislature
2017 regular session
Introduced
Senate Bill 324
By Senators Beach and Romano
[Introduced February 15,
2017; Referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary; and then to the Committee on Finance]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §4-1-2a; and to amend said code by adding thereto a new section, designated §5-1A-6, all relating to prohibiting the Governor and Legislature from administering equal across-the-board budget cuts to all higher education; and protecting community colleges from disproportionate budget cuts.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §4-1-2a; and that said code be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §5-1A-6, all to read as follows:
CHAPTER 4. THE LEGISLATURE.
ARTICLE 1. OFFICERS, MEMBERS AND EMPLOYEES; APPROPRIATIONS; INVESTIGATIONS; DISPLAY OF FLAGS; RECORDS; USE OF CAPITOL BUILDING; PREFILING OF BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS; STANDING COMMITTEES; INTERIM MEETINGS; NEXT MEETING OF THE SENATE.
§4-1-2a. Limitations on certain budget cuts to higher education.
(a) Prohibition. -- The Legislature is prohibited from administering equal across-the-board budget cuts to all higher education.
(b) Community college protections. -- Budget cuts to community colleges shall not exceed fifty percent of the budget cuts imposed upon four-year institutions within the same fiscal year.
CHAPTER 5. GENERAL POWERS AND AUTHORITY OF THE GOVERNOR, SECRETARY OF STATE AND ATTORNEY GENERAL; BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS; MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES, COMMISSIONS, OFFICES, PROGRAMS, ETC.
ARTICLE 1A. ITEMIZATION OF PROPOSED APPROPRIATIONS IN BUDGET BILL SUBMITTED BY GOVERNOR TO LEGISLATURE.
§5-1A-6. Limitations on certain budget cuts to higher education.
(a) Prohibition. -- The Governor is prohibited from administering equal across-the-board budget cuts to all higher education.
(b) Community college protections. -- Budget cuts to community colleges shall not exceed fifty percent of the budget cuts imposed upon four-year institutions within the same fiscal year.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the Governor and Legislature from administering equal across-the-board budget cuts to all higher education and to protect community colleges from disproportionate budget cuts.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.