ENROLLED
Senate Bill No. 705
(By Senators Wooton, Ball, Dittmar, Hunter, McCabe, Minard, Mitchell,
Oliverio, Redd, Ross, Snyder, Deem and McKenzie)
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[Passed March 13, 1999; in effect ninety days from passage.]
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AN ACT to amend article two-c, chapter forty-eight of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section
four-c, relating to creating a special revenue fund,
designated the "Domestic Violence Legal Services Fund";
authorizing receipt of certain moneys; and prohibiting state
appropriations for two years.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article two-c, chapter forty eight of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended by adding a new section, designated section four-c, to read
as follows:
ARTICLE 2C. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACT.
§48-2C-4c. Domestic violence legal services fund.
There is hereby established in the state treasury a special revenue account, designated as the "Domestic Violence Legal
Services Fund", which shall be an appropriated fund for receipt of
grants, gifts, fees, or federal or state funds designated for legal
services for domestic violence victims:
Provided, That state funds
may not be appropriated prior to fiscal year two thousand two.
Expenditures from the fund shall be limited to attorneys employed
by domestic violence shelters, or employed by nonprofit agencies
which establish a collaborative relationship with a domestic
violence shelter, that provide civil legal services to victims of
domestic violence."
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