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ENGROSSED

Senate Bill No. 737

(By Senators Craigo, Sharpe, Jackson, Chafin,

Prezioso, Plymale, Love, Helmick, Anderson,

Edgell, Unger, McCabe, Boley and Minear)

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[Originating in the Committee on Finance;


reported February 28, 2002.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact section eleven, article three, chapter twelve of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to authorizing the secretary of administration to pay travel expenses for visitors; and authorizing the payment of moving expenses for new and transferred employees.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section eleven, article three, chapter twelve of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 3. APPROPRIATIONS, EXPENDITURES AND DEDUCTIONS.

§12-3-11. Travel expenses; rules to be promulgated concerning travel expenses; dues to voluntary organizations; recruitment expenses for higher education policy commission and West Virginia higher education governing boards; moving expenses of employees of higher education policy commission and West Virginia higher education governing boards.

(a) The governor shall promulgate rules concerning out-of-state travel by state officials and employees, except those in the legislative and judicial branches of the state government and except for the attorney general, auditor, secretary of state, treasurer, board of investments, commissioner of agriculture and their employees, the higher education policy commission and the higher education governing boards and institutions under their jurisdiction. The Legislature, the supreme court of appeals and, the attorney general, auditor, secretary of state, treasurer, board of investments, commissioner of agriculture, the higher education policy commission and the higher education governing boards shall promulgate rules concerning out-of-state travel for their respective branches and departments of state government. Copies of such the rules shall be filed with the auditor and the secretary of state. It shall be is unlawful for the auditor to issue a warrant in payment of any claim for out-of-state travel expenses incurred by a state officer or employee unless such the claim meets all the requirements of the rules so filed.
(b) Payment for dues or membership in annual or other voluntary organizations shall be made from the proper item or appropriation after an itemized schedule of such the organizations, together with the amount of such the dues or membership, has been submitted to the budget director and approved by the governor.
(c) It shall be lawful for The secretary of the department of administration, the higher education policy commission or a higher education governing board to may authorize the payment of traveling expenses incurred by any person invited to visit a state agency, the campus of any state institution of higher education or any other facility under control of a higher education governing board or the higher education policy commission to be interviewed concerning his or her possible employment by a state agency, a higher education governing board, the higher education policy commission or agent thereof.
(d) It shall be lawful for The secretary of the department of administration, the higher education policy commission or a higher education governing board to may authorize payment of: (1) All or part of the reasonable expense incurred by a person newly employed by a state agency, a higher education governing board or the higher education policy commission in moving his or her household furniture, effects and immediate family to his or her place of employment; and (2) all or part of the reasonable expense incurred by an employee of a state agency, a higher education governing board or the higher education policy commission in moving his or her household furniture, effects and immediate family as a result of a reassignment of the employee which is considered desirable, advantageous to and in the best interest of the state: Provided, That no part of the moving expenses of any one such employee shall be paid more frequently than once in twelve months.
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