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ENGROSSED

COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

FOR

Senate Bill No. 708

(By Senators Helmick, Minear, Ross and Rowe)

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[Originating in the Committee on Finance;

reported April 2, 2001.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact section ten, article two-b, chapter twenty of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to law-enforcement and sports education stamp; and disallowing the use of funds from the sale of the stamp on law-enforcement education programs for boaters.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section ten, article two-b, chapter twenty of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2B. WILDLIFE ENDOWMENT FUND.
§20-2B-10.  Law-enforcement and sports education stamp.
(a) On or after the first day of January, one thousand nine hundred ninety-eight, Any nonresident hunter, angler or trapper licensed to hunt, fish or trap in this state, in addition to a hunting, fishing or trapping license of Class E, EE, F, G, H or K in the case of a nonresident, shall have a law-enforcement and sports education stamp which shall be issued by the division of natural resources. The stamp shall be sold at places where hunting, fishing or trapping licenses are sold. The fee for the law-enforcement and sports education stamp is five dollars for a nonresident of West Virginia.
(b) The revenue derived from the sale of law-enforcement and sports education stamps shall be deposited in the state treasury and shall be credited to the division of natural resources, law-enforcement section. The revenue shall be used and paid out, upon order of the director, for the law-enforcement section's expenses relating to the general enforcement of state laws pertaining to the conservation of fish and wildlife and or law- enforcement education programs for hunters, anglers, and trappers and boaters: Provided, That no expenditures of the revenue derived from the sale of the law-enforcement and sports education stamp shall be made for law-enforcement purposes not directly related to the wildlife resources of the state or for the aforementioned educational programs set forth in this subsection. Any unexpended moneys derived from the sale of law-enforcement and sports education stamps shall be carried forward to the next fiscal year and expended for law-enforcement and educational programs.
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