H. B. 2313
(By Delegates Lindsey and Prezioso)
[Introduced March 1, 1993; referred to the
Committee on Education then Finance.]
A BILL to amend section three-a, article nine, chapter eighteen
of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred
thirty-one, as amended, relating to the publishing and
listing requirements of county boards of education.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section three-a, article nine, chapter eighteen of the
code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 9. SCHOOL FINANCES.
§18-9-3a. Preparation, publication and disposition of financial
statements by county boards of education.
The county board of education of every county, within four
weeks sixty days after the beginning of each fiscal year, shall
prepare on a form to be prescribed by the state tax commissioner
and the state superintendent of free schools, and cause to be
published a statement revealing (a) the receipts and expenditures
of the board during the previous fiscal year arranged underdescriptive headings, (b) the name of each firm, corporation and
person who received more than fifty five hundred dollars in the
aggregate from all funds during the previous fiscal year,
together with the aggregate amount received from all funds and
the purpose for which paid:
Provided,
That such statement shall
not include the name of any person who has entered into a
contract with this board pursuant to the provisions of sections
two, three, four and five, article two, chapter eighteen-a of
this code, and (c) all debts of the board, the purpose for which
each debt was contracted, its due date, and to what date the
interest thereon has been paid. Such statement shall be
published as a Class I-0 legal advertisement in compliance with
the provisions of article three, chapter fifty-nine of this code,
and the publication area for such publication shall be the
county. The county board of education shall pay the cost of
publishing such statement from the maintenance fund of the board.
As soon as is practicable following the close of the fiscal
year, a copy of the published statement herein required shall be
filed by the county board of education with the state tax
commissioner and with the state superintendent of free schools.
The county board of education shall transmit to any resident
of the county requesting the same a copy of the published
statement for the fiscal year designated, supplemented by a list
of the names of all school personnel employed by the board during
such fiscal year showing the amount paid to each, and a list of
the names of each firm, corporation and person who received lessthan fifty five hundred dollars from any fund during such
fiscal year showing the amount paid to each and the purpose for
which paid.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to change the reporting
requirements in a newspaper of expenditures by county board of
education from four weeks to sixty days after the beginning of
the fiscal year, and list the name of each firm, corporation and
person who received more than five hundred dollars, rather than
fifty dollars, in the aggregate from all funds during the
previous fiscal year.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken
from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language
that would be added.