Senate Bill No. 501
(By Senators Fanning, Kessler, Foster, Bailey, Wells and
McKenzie)
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[Introduced January 30, 2008; referred to the Committee on the
Judiciary; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §20-13-3 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to the transfer of the Stream
Partners Program Fund from the West Virginia Division of
Natural Resources to the West Virginia Department of
Environmental Protection in order to ensure a sufficient level
of funding.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §20-13-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 13. WEST VIRGINIA STREAM PARTNERS PROGRAM.
§20-13-3. West Virginia stream partners program created; executive
committee identified; program coordination.
There is hereby created The West Virginia Stream Partners
Program
and within the Division of Natural Resources there is hereby created is continued. The West Virginia Stream Partners
Program Fund
created within the Division of Natural Resources is
transferred to the Department of Environmental Protection. Subject
to annual appropriation of the Legislature into the West Virginia
Stream Partners Program Fund, the program shall be jointly
administered by the Division of Natural Resources, the
division
Department of Environmental Protection, the Division of Forestry
and the West Virginia State Soil Conservation Agency. The
director,
secretary or commissioner of each of these administering
agencies or his or her designee
shall collectively constitute an
executive committee to oversee the program. The Governor shall
designate a member of the executive committee to serve as chair.
The committee may designate a staff member from the existing staff
of one of the administering agencies to coordinate the program on
behalf of the executive committee.
Pursuant to the provisions of
article ten, chapter four of this code, the stream partners program
and stream partners program fund shall continue to exist until the
first day of July, two thousand six, unless sooner terminated,
continued or reestablished by act of the Legislature.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to transfer the Stream
Partners Program Fund from the Division of Natural Resources to the
Department of Environmental Protection to ensure a sufficient level
of funding.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.