WEST virginia legislature

2022 regular session

Committee Substitute

for

House Bill 4794

By Delegates Foster, Hamrick and J. Jeffries

[Originating in the Committee on Government Organization; February 23, 2022]

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §6-9B-5, relating to requiring counties to provide certain information to the State Auditor for inclusion in the financial transparency website.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

Article 9B. Open governmental finances.

§6-9B-5. Counties to provide financial information to transparency website.

(a) Beginning July 1, 2023, each county shall provide certain financial information to the State Auditor for inclusion in the financial transparency website.

(b) Counties are required to provide to the State Auditor:

(1) The name, principal location or residence of the recipients of a given funding action or expenditure: Provided, That all federal and state laws and regulations and rules regarding the confidentiality of information and privacy apply;

(2) The amount of funds expended in a given funding action or expenditure;

(3) The funding source a given funding action or expenditure;

(4) The budget program or activity related to a given funding action or expenditure; and

(5) Additional information as to the funding action or expenditure the Auditor deems valuable for the public.

(c) The Auditor shall make publicly known those counties that have failed to comply with the requirements of this article.