ENROLLED
Senate Bill No. 406
(By Senators Love, Ball, Hunter, Fanning,
Schoonover, Mitchell, Deem and Sharpe)
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[Passed March 9, 1999; in effect ninety days from passage.]
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AN ACT to amend article eleven, chapter twenty-one of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section
twenty, relating to authorizing the contractor licensing
board to provide public education services through
vocational schools to assist applicants in obtaining a
contractor's license.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article eleven, chapter twenty-one 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, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 11. WEST VIRGINIA CONTRACTOR LICENSING ACT.
§21-11-20. Board authorized to provide training.
(a) The West Virginia contractor licensing board may enter
into work-sharing agreements with state vocational and technical
training schools to provide classroom training to students who
desire to obtain a West Virginia contractor license. The purpose
of the training is limited to instruction applicable to the
contractor license examinations required by the board. The terms
of the work-sharing agreements shall be determined by the West
Virginia contractor licensing board and county boards of
education.
(b) For the purposes of this section, the board is
authorized to expend funds from its special revenue account,
known as the contractor licensing fund, to support this activity.
Funding is to be limited to the availability of funds and may not
exceed fifty thousand dollars annually.