Bill Text: WV SCR38 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Requiring Secretary of Commerce study foremost challenges in attracting businesses and provide report during 2020 interim sessions
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 8-4)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-14 - Referred to Rules [SCR38 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2020-SCR38-Introduced.html
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 38
(By Senators Swope, Azinger, Baldwin, Cline, Hamilton, Ihlenfeld, Jeffries, Mann, Pitsenbarger, Roberts, Stollings, and Tarr)
[Originating in the Committee on Economic Development; reported on February 14, 2020]
Requesting the Secretary of Commerce conduct a study on the foremost challenges to being competitive in attracting businesses to West Virginia and provide a list of these challenges to the Joint Committee on Government and draft legislation.
Whereas, The Secretary of Commerce shall present to the Joint Committee on Government and Finance during the 2020 legislative interim sessions a list of the foremost challenges to being competitive in attracting businesses to West Virginia, and draft legislation necessary to affect a minimal level of funding to address these challenges; and
Whereas, The goal of the West Virginia Development Office is to enhance economic growth by developing comprehensive economic strategies; and
Whereas, In the information provided, the Secretary of Commerce shall include the following: (1) site certification funding; (2) closing funding; (3) any other considerations; (4) a vision and mission statement for the West Virginia Development Office; (5) A list of what the West Virginia Development Office is doing now that should be a function of government; (6) a list of what the West Virginia Development Office is doing now that should be done by private enterprise; (7) a list of what the West Virginia Development Office is mandated to do now that should not be a function of the West Virginia Development Office; (8) a plan for the Legislature’s consideration of a public-private structure to replace the current West Virginia Development Office that comprehensively considers the items identified herein, and a date certain that the office can be transitioned to a public-private structure, should legislation be passed to make it possible in the 2021 Legislative Session; therefore, be it
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Legislature hereby requests the Secretary of Commerce study the foremost challenges to being competitive in attracting businesses to West Virginia and provide a list of these challenges to the Joint Committee on Government and Finance, and draft legislation; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the Senate is hereby directed to forward a copy of this resolution to the Secretary of Commerce.
