SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION 7
(By Senators Clements and Plymale)
[Introduced February 6, 2023]
Amending Joint Rules of the Senate and House of Delegates.
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the joint rules of the Senate and House of Delegates be amended by adding thereto a new rule 31, to read as follows:
Concurrent Resolutions Naming Transportation Infrastructure
31. Concurrent resolutions requesting the naming of transportation infrastructure shall be limited to the naming of bridges and roads.
No later than the fifteenth day of December immediately preceding the convening of the Legislature in regular session, legislators shall submit all applications to name transportation infrastructure to Legislative Services and the Division of Highways. No later than the fifteenth day of January, the Division of Highways shall provide infrastructure availability and location information to Legislative Services for all timely submitted applications. Legislative Services shall then draft a concurrent resolution for each timely submitted application. All such concurrent resolutions requesting the naming of transportation infrastructure shall be introduced by the twenty-fifth day and shall not be considered after the fiftieth day.
No concurrent resolution requesting the naming of transportation infrastructure that does not follow these procedures shall be introduced.; and, be it
Further Resolved, That this rule shall not take effect until sine die adjournment of the 2023 regular session.