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H. B. 2528


(By Delegate Boggs)

[Introduced February 26, 2001; referred to the

Committee on Government Organization then Finance.]





A BILL to amend article one, chapter sixteen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section twenty-two, relating to requiring the director of the division of health to create a program to provide matching grants of funds to public service districts or units of local government to assist residents in providing water service; and creating local water grant fund.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article one, chapter sixteen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section twenty-two, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 1. DIVISION OF HEALTH.
§16-1-22. Local water grant program.

(a) The director of the division of health shall create and administer a program to provide grants of funds to public service districts or units of local government to provide water service. The program shall provide:
(1) That grants may only be made to public service districts or units of local government who have sufficient available funds from residents to pay for at least thirty percent of the estimated cost of the water service project;
(2) The amount of a grant may not exceed the lesser of seventy percent of the estimated cost of the project or one hundred thousand dollars;
(3) Grants may be made only from funds available in the local water grant fund created in subsection (b) of this section;
(4) That grants may be required to be reviewed by the West Virginia infrastructure and jobs development council; and
(5) Other provisions the director considers necessary or reasonable.
(b) There is created in the state treasury a special fund designated the "local water grant fund." The sole purpose of the fund is to provide matching grants under the program developed under subsection (a) of this section. The fund consists of funds appropriated by the Legislature for the program, gifts and grants received from any other entity.


NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require the Director of the Division of Health to create and administer a program to provide matching grants to public service districts or units of local government to assist residents in providing water service.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.
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