SB37 HFA Manchin 3-9

            Delegate Manchin moves to amend the bill on page 11, Section 8, line 20, following the period, by inserting a new subsection (e) to read as follows:

            “(e) A person or entity may not require any consumer or party in this state for any transaction governed by article six, chapter forty-six-a of this code, to prospectively assent to a waiver of any liability imposed by said act or require any controversy arising thereunder to be referred to a person other than the duly constituted courts of this state, or the United States District Courts of the Northern or Southern Districts of West Virginia. Nothing in this prevents the consumer or party, after a civil action is filed, from entering into any agreement of settlement, arbitration, assignment or waiver of a trial by jury.”