Senate Bill No. 161


(By Senators Oliverio, Tomblin, Helmick, Guills, Minear, Weeks, Jenkins, Sprouse, Ross, McKenzie, Bowman, Fanning, Facemyer, Love, Unger and Sharpe)

[Introduced January 16, 2003; referred to the

Committee on the Judiciary; and then to the Committee on Finance.]





A BILL to repeal section fifteen, article five, chapter twenty-three of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to appeals from the workers' compensation appeal board to the supreme court of appeals.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
§1. Repeal of section authorizing appeal from decision of workers compensation appeal board to West Virginia supreme court of appeals.

Section fifteen, article five, chapter twenty-three of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, is hereby repealed.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to repeal the section authorizing an appeal from an order of the Workers Compensation Appeal Board to the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.