SB303 SFAT Weld 3-16

Dean  7897

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

Eng. Senate Bill 303—A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new chapter, designated §8B-1-1, §8B-1-2, §8B-1-3, §8B-1-4, §8B-1-5, and §8B-1-6, all relating to creating the Local Government Labor Regulatory Limitation Act; prohibiting political subdivisions from enacting certain ordinances, regulations, local policies, local resolutions, or other legal requirements; providing a short title; setting forth legislative findings and declarations; defining terms; providing areas in which political subdivisions may not adopt or enforce any ordinance, regulation, local policy, local resolution, or other legal requirement; establishing a civil cause of action which, if proven in a court of competent jurisdiction, may permit a person to obtain injunctive relief or any other appropriate equitable relief against any political subdivision violating the Local Government Labor Regulatory Limitation Act; providing exceptions; clarifying effect on prior written agreements; providing that any prohibited ordinance, regulation, local policy, local resolution, or other legal requirement in effect prior to the effective date of the act is void; providing that the prohibitions do not apply to employees of a political subdivision; and providing that the prohibitions do not prohibit a political subdivision from complying with the West Virginia Alcohol and Drug-Free Workplace Act or otherwise require similar drug and alcohol policies and testing of a political subdivision’s vendors.

Adopted

Rejected