WEST virginia legislature

2020 regular session

ENROLLED

Committee Substitute

for

House Bill 4042

By Delegates Howell, Bibby, J. Jeffries, Waxman, J. Kelly and Cadle

[Passed February 7, 2020; in effect ninety days from passage.]

 

AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §5A-1-12, relating to requiring agencies exempt from some or all of state purchasing requirements to adopt procedural rules establishing their purchasing procedures.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 1. DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION.

§5A-1-12. Procedural rules required for exempt agencies.

(a) An agency that has been exempted from some or all of the requirements of this chapter, by either a provision of this chapter or in another provision of this code, shall adopt procedural rules, under §29A-3-1 et seq. or §29A-3A-1 et seq. of this code, establishing its purchasing procedures.

(b) For agencies that have been exempted prior to the effective date of this section, the written procedures shall be filed no later than September 1, 2020. After September 1, 2020, any agency which has not filed its procedural rule as required by this section shall follow the procurement requirements established by the Purchasing Division.

(c) For agencies that are exempted after the effective date of this section, the written procedures shall be filed before the exemption may take effect.

The Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills hereby certifies that the foregoing bill is correctly enrolled.

 

 

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        Chairman, House Committee

 

 

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                             Chairman, Senate Committee

                                                   

 

Originating in the House.

 

In effect ninety days from passage.

 

 

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                  Clerk of the House of Delegates

 

 

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                                                   Clerk of the Senate

 

 

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                                                   Speaker of the House of Delegates

 

 

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                                                                                     President of the Senate

 

 

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day of ..........................................................................................................., 2020.

 

 

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                                                                                                Governor