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Introduced Version Senate Joint Resolution 8 History

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WEST virginia legislature

2023 regular session

Introduced

Senate Joint Resolution 8

By Senators Jeffries and Caputo

[Introduced January 19, 2023; referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary; and then to the Committee on Finance
]

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia amending and reenacting section six, article XII thereof, relating to the election of school districts; numbering and designating such proposed amendment; and providing a summarized statement of the purpose of such proposed amendment.

Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia, two thirds of the members elected to each house agreeing thereto:

That the question of ratification or rejection of an amendment to the Constitution of the State of West Virginia be submitted to the voters of the state at the next general election to be held in the year 2024, which proposed amendment is that section six, article XII thereof, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE xi. county organization.

§6. School Districts.

The school districts into which the state is now divided shall continue until changed pursuant to act of the Legislature: Provided, That the school board of any district shall be elected by the voters of the respective magisterial district without reference to political party affiliation. No more than two of the members of such board may be residents of the same magisterial district within any school district.

Resolved further, That in accordance with the provisions of article eleven, chapter three of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, such amendment is hereby numbered "Amendment No. 1" and designated as the "Fair School Board Representation Amendment" and the purpose of the proposed amendment is summarized as follows:  "To amend the State Constitution by permitting citizens of the State of West Virginia  to have fair and equal representation by requiring school board members to be elected by the same voters in the magisterial district whom he or she shall represent."

 

NOTE: The purpose of this resolution is to permit the same West Virginia citizens in a magisterial district to be the sole electors of the school board members which represent those citizens.

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

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