ENGROSSED
Senate Bill No. 537
(By Senators Bowman, Bailey, Ball, Jackson, Kessler, Plymale,
Schoonover, White, Boley, Minear and Scott )
__________
[Originating in the Committee on Government Organization;
reported February 12, 1998.]
__________
A BILL to amend and reenact section four, article eleven, chapter
five of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred
thirty-one, as amended, relating to continuing the West
Virginia human rights commission.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section four, article eleven, chapter five of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 11. HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION.
§5-11-4. Human rights commission continued; status, powers and
objects.
The West Virginia human rights commission, heretofore created,
is hereby continued. The commission shall have the power and
authority and shall perform the functions and services as in this
article prescribed and as otherwise provided by law. The
commission shall encourage and endeavor to bring about mutual understanding and respect among all racial, religious and ethnic
groups within the state and shall strive to eliminate all
discrimination in employment and places of public accommodations by
virtue of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex,
age, blindness or handicap and shall strive to eliminate all
discrimination in the sale, purchase, lease, rental or financing of
housing and other real property by virtue of race, religion, color,
national origin, ancestry, sex, blindness, handicap or familial
status.
Pursuant to the provisions of article ten, chapter four of
this code, the West Virginia human rights commission shall continue
to exist until the first day of July,
one thousand nine hundred
ninety-eight two thousand.