HB2174 HFAT Steele 3-19

Schiffour 3289

Delegate Steele moved to amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting therefor a new title, to read as follows:

Eng. House Bill No. 2174 -- H. B. 2174 – “A Bill to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §29-1-8c, relating to the West Virginia Monument and Memorial Protection Act of 2021; prohibiting the relocation, removal, alteration, renaming, rededication, or other disturbance of any statue, monument, memorial, nameplate, or plaque which is located on public property and has been erected for, or named, or dedicated in honor of certain historical military, civil rights, natural disasters or accidents, Native American events, figures, and organizations, historical religious significance; permitting any citizen of this state to petition the governmental entity that has control of a statue, monument, memorial, nameplate, or plaque; permitting a citizen a mechanism to petition the West Virginia State Historical Preservation Office to remove a statue, monument, memorial, nameplate, or plaque in certain circumstances; prohibiting any person from preventing the governmental entity having responsibility for maintaining the items, structures, or areas from taking proper measures to protect, preserve, care for, repair, or restore the items, structures, or areas; and authorizing the West Virginia State Historic Preservation Office to grant waivers under certain circumstances.”

Adopted

Rejected