WEST virginia legislature

2020 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 4935

By Delegates Angelucci, DiSerio, Walker, Lavender-Bowe, Estep-Burton, Longstreth, S. Brown and Pyles

[Introduced February 11, 2020; Referred to the Committee on Technology and Infrastructure then Government Organization]

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia,1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §17-2A-6b relating to requiring the Commissioner of Highways to develop and make publicly available a searchable website with detailed information about current and planned Division of Highways projects.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 2A. WEST VIRGINIA COMMISSIONER OF HIGHWAYS.

§17-2A-6b. Searchable website of projects.

(a) No later than September 1, 2020, the Commissioner of Highways shall develop and make publicly available a searchable website containing, at a minimum, the following information for a given fiscal year, and the three immediately preceding fiscal years:

(1) The project number or name for each state road project in which moneys have been expended to pay vendors to build, repair or maintain a state road;

(2) The county location for each project;

(3) The funding source for a given funding action or expenditure to pay vendors;

(4) The budget program or activity related to a given funding action or expenditure;

(5) The name and the address, principal location or residence of the vendors receiving payment from a given funding action or expenditure;

(6) Additional information as to the funding action or expenditure the commissioner considers valuable for the public; and

(7) Information concerning projects that are in the planning process, including location, estimated cost, timeframes and other relevant information the commissioner considers appropriate to make public.

(b) The searchable website shall be updated as new data become available.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of Highways to maintain a searchable website with information about current and planned Division of Highways projects.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.