HB5168 SFAT Barrett #1 3-11

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

Eng. Com. Sub. for House Bill 5168—A Bill to amend and reenact §5B-2-21b and §16-4-25 of the West Virginia Code, 1931, as amended, and to amend said code by adding thereto a new article, designated §7-5C-1 and §7-5C-2; and to amend said code by adding a new section, designated §29-22-18h, all relating to ensuring funding for certain emergency medical services and fire protection; clarifying microgrid and high impact data centers duty to pay county fire and ambulance fees; entitling microgrid and high impact data centers to county fire and police protection; creating a special revenue fund administered by the Director of the West Virginia Office of Emergency Medical Services for the benefit of emergency medical services in counties with excess levies or dedicated fees related to emergency medical services, designated the County Emergency Medical Services Fund; creating a special revenue fund administered by the Director of the West Virginia Office of Emergency Medical Services for the benefit of emergency medical services in all counties, designated the All County Emergency Medical Services Fund; granting rulemaking authority; changing name of an existing special revenue fund to Emergency Medical Services Salary Enhancement, Crisis Response, and Mental Health Treatment Fund; expanding purposes for which expenditures from fund may be made; limiting purposes for expenditures of certain moneys transferred into fund; requiring annual reporting; transferring, after the end of each fiscal year from any remaining and available net profits in the State Lottery Fund, the sum of $6 million to the Emergency Medical Services Salary Enhancement, Crisis Response, and Mental Health Treatment Fund, the sum of three million dollars to the County Emergency Medical Services Fund, and the sum of three million dollars to the All County Emergency Medical Services; and providing reduced pro rata distribution in the event of insufficient remaining and available net profits.

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