COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
H. B. 2957
(By Delegates Beach, Perry, Shaver, Varner,
Eldridge, Argento and Williams)
[Originating in the Committee on Government Organization]
(March 24, 2009)
A BILL to amend and reenact §19-8-1, §19-8-2 and §19-8-3 of the
Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to county
extension services; requiring the collection of data regarding
the locations of all cemeteries within West Virginia;
requiring the information to be kept by the Historic
Preservation Section of the Division of Culture and History
acting as the repository for said data.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §19-8-1, §19-8-2 and §19-8-3 of the Code of West
Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as
follows:
§19-8-1. County extension service committee; composition;
organization; duties and responsibilities; employment and
compensation of extension workers.
(a) The county extension service committee shall be composed of:
(a) (1)
The president of the county farm bureau;
(b) (2)
The president of the county extension homemakers
council;
(c) (3)
The president of the county Four-H leaders'
association;
(d) (4)
A county commissioner designated by the president of
the county commission;
(e) (5)
A member of the county board of education designated
by the president of the county board of education;
(f) (6)
A county representative of the grange; and
(g) (7)
Two members who are residents of the county to be
appointed by the board of advisors of West Virginia University
(b)
The members shall serve for staggered terms of three years
each beginning on July 1.
(c)
and in making these appointments The board of advisors
shall appoint one member designated by any other active farm
organization in the county not already represented by virtue of
this section.
(d)
If any of the above-named organizations do not exist in
the county, the board of advisors of West Virginia University may
appoint an additional member for each such vacancy. The committee
shall annually elect from its membership a chairperson and a
secretary.
It shall each year be the duty and responsibility of the
county extension service committee:
(e)
The committee shall:
(1) To Enter into a memorandum of agreement with the
cooperative extension service of West Virginia University for the
employment of county cooperative extension workers;
(2) To Prepare a memorandum of agreement with the county
commission and with the county board of education for their
financial support of extension work; and
(3) To Give guidance and assistance in the development of the
county cooperative extension service program and in the preparation
of the annual plan of work for the county.
(f)
Such The county cooperative extension service committee
may on or before the July 1 of each year file with the county
commission a written memorandum of agreement with the cooperative
extension service of West Virginia University for the employment
for the next fiscal year of county extension agents, extension
homemaker agents, associate or assistant agents, and clerical
workers.
(g)
The county cooperative extension service committee may
also file on or before the first day of July of each year with the
county board of education a written memorandum of agreement with
the cooperative extension service of West Virginia University for
the employment for the next fiscal year of Four-H club or youth development agents, associate or assistant agents, and clerical
workers.
(h) If such the agreement or agreements are so filed, the
county commission and the county board of education of such the
county, or either of them, may annually enter into such the
agreement or agreements for the employment for the next fiscal year
of such the county extension agents, extension homemaker agents,
Four-H club or youth development agents, associate or assistant
agents, and clerical workers, or any of them, as may be nominated
by the cooperative extension service of West Virginia University,
and approved in writing by at least five members of the county
extension service committee.
(i)
Salaries and expenses of all such county extension workers
shall be paid by the cooperative extension service, the county
commission, and the board of education, or jointly out of such
appropriations as are made by the Legislature, the county
commission and the board of education, separately or in conjunction
with such federal acts as do now, or may hereafter, provide funds
for such purpose. That part of salaries, travel and general office
expense to be provided by the county commission according to the
approved memorandum shall be paid from general county funds.
(j)
Whenever the cooperative extension service is required by
law or legislative intent to grant a salary increase to its
employees, the state budget shall include such the additional funds as may be necessary to fully fund such the salary increase. It is
the intent of this section that the cooperative extension service
shall is not be dependent upon county or federal funds or upon the
other funds of the institution or the governing board to meet the
costs of such the a salary increase required by law or legislative
intent regardless of the source of the employee's base salary:
Provided,
That any decrease by the county of base salary levels of
county extension employees, as exists on June 30 of the year
preceding the year the salary increase is authorized, shall may not
be funded by the state.
§19-8-2. Expenditure of appropriations; compliance with "Smith-
Lever Act."
All moneys levied or appropriated by the county court county
commission or the county board of education under this article
shall be expended upon orders of the county court county commission
or board of education as other such county funds are expended, and
a duplicate of all salary vouchers and expense accounts shall be
filed with the cooperative extension service of West Virginia
University in such a form as will comply that complies with the
provisions of the act of Congress approved May eighth, one thousand
nine hundred fourteen, known as the "Smith-Lever Act," or any act
of Congress amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, but no
part of any money so appropriated shall be used to compensate any
representative of West Virginia University or any other person, except the persons employed under this article.
§19-8-3. Duties of county extension workers; extension service to
cooperate with county court commission and board of education.
(a) Under the supervision of the cooperative extension service
of West Virginia University, it shall be the duty of each county
extension worker to shall promote, through various educational
programs, the improvement and advancement of agriculture, forestry
and home economics, and the general economic, cultural and social
life of the people in the respective areas to which they are
assigned.
(b) The cooperative extension service of West Virginia
University shall develop a program to collect the name and
longitudinal and latitudinal data of all cemeteries within West
Virginia, including those cemeteries otherwise referenced in
section six, article five-a, chapter thirty-five of this code. The
program may then be implemented by county cooperative extension
service committees. Once implemented, extension workers, along
with members of local 4-H organizations, shall collect data with
global positioning system devices and provide said data to the
Director of the Historic Preservation Section of the Division of
Culture and History, which shall serve as a repository for the
information.
(c) It shall also be the duty of The cooperative extension
service of West Virginia University to shall cooperate with each county court commission and each county board of education
appropriating money under this article.