ENROLLED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 365
(Senators Miller, Snyder and Williams, original sponsors)
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[Passed March 8, 2014; in effect from passage.]
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AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated §19-21A-4a, relating
to administration of West Virginia Conservation Agency
programs; providing that elected conservation district
supervisors have their applications to participate in West
Virginia Conservation Agency programs evaluated and considered
by other conservation districts; and requiring the State
Conservation Committee to propose rules for legislative
approval.
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 §19-21A-4a, to read as
follows:
ARTICLE 21A. CONSERVATION DISTRICTS.
§19-21A-4a. Administration of West Virginia Conservation Agency
programs; legislative rules.
(a) If an elected conservation district supervisor applies or
intends to apply to participate in a West Virginia Conservation
Agency program, then all applications for that particular program
in that particular district shall be evaluated and approved by a
conservation district other than the one being supervised by the
elected conservation district supervisor.
(b) The State Conservation Committee shall propose rules for
legislative approval, pursuant to article three, chapter twenty-
nine-a of this code, to establish:
(1) The criteria, ranking and standards required for an
applicant to qualify to participate in West Virginia Conservation
Agency programs;
(2) A process to disclose the recipients of the award; and
(3) The process for an unsuccessful qualified applicant to
appeal an award.