Senate Bill No. 499
(By Senators McCabe, Foster, Oliverio, Hunter, Bailey,
Minard, Jenkins, Yoder, Prezioso, Fanning,
Minear, Sprouse, Harrison, Plymale and Unger)
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[Introduced February 6, 2006; referred to the Committee
on Economic Development; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend and reenact §5B-2-14 of the Code of West Virginia,
1931, as amended, relating to including nationally certified
West Virginia Main Street programs as participants in the West
Virginia Development Office's Certified Development Community
Program.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §5B-2-14 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended,
be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. WEST VIRGINIA DEVELOPMENT OFFICE.
§5B-2-14. Certified development community program.
The certified development community program is continued and
is transferred to, incorporated in and administered as a program of
the West Virginia development office. The program shall provide
funding assistance to the participating economic development
corporations or authorities through a matching grant program. The
West Virginia development office shall establish criteria for
awarding matching grants to the corporations or authorities within the limits of funds appropriated by the Legislature for the
program. The matching grants to eligible corporations or
authorities are in the amount of thirty thousand dollars for each
fiscal year, if sufficient funds are appropriated by the
Legislature. The West Virginia development office shall recognize
existing county, regional or multicounty corporations or
authorities where appropriate.
In developing its plan, the West Virginia development office
shall consider resources and technical support available through
other agencies, both public and private, including, but not limited
to, the state college and university systems; the West Virginia
Housing Development Fund; the West Virginia Economic Development
Authority; the West Virginia Parkways, Economic Development and
Tourism Authority; the West Virginia Round Table; the West Virginia
Chamber of Commerce; Regional Planning and Development Councils;
Regional Partnership for Progress Councils;
nationally certified
West Virginia Main Street programs; and state appropriations.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to include nationally
certified West Virginia Main Street programs as participants in the
West Virginia Development Office's certified development community
program.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.
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