WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2023 REGULAR SESSION
ENROLLED
House Bill 3371
By Delegates Ellington, Statler and Toney
[Passed March 9, 2023; in effect ninety days from passage.]
AN ACT to amend and reenact §18-10-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to federal funds for land-grant institutions.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
The state of West Virginia hereby renews its assent to the provisions and purposes of the act of Congress of August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled "An act to apply a portion of the proceeds of the public land to the more complete endowment and support of the colleges for the benefit of agriculture and the mechanic arts established under the provisions of the act of Congress approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," and of all subsequent acts of Congress amending or supplementing said act, and accepts the appropriations of money authorized thereby.
The state of West Virginia hereby designates West Virginia University as the beneficiary of appropriations under the eighteen hundred and sixty-two act of Congress referred to in section one of this article and West Virginia State University as the beneficiary of appropriations under the eighteen hundred and ninety act of Congress referred to in this section and shall maximize the full federal matching requirement, including, but not limited to, 7 U.S.C. § 3222d(c) through a separate line item appropriation for each of the two institutions.
The Clerk of the House of Delegates and the Clerk of the Senate hereby certify that the foregoing bill is correctly enrolled.
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Clerk of the House of Delegates
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Clerk of the Senate
Originated in the House of Delegates.
In effect ninety days from passage.
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Speaker of the House of Delegates
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President of the Senate
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Governor