H.
B.
4378
(By Delegates Ryan and Pulliam)
[Introduced February 7, 1994; referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary then Finance.]
A BILL to amend article five, chapter nine of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section four-a, relating to human services; miscellaneous provisions; and providing a reward for persons who provide information or evidence of welfare fraud that leads to a conviction.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article five, chapter nine of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto an new section, designated section four-a, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
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4a. Rewards for persons who give information or evidence
that leads to conviction for welfare fraud.
Any person, other than an employee of state, county or municipal government or a member of any law-enforcement agency, who provides information or evidence that leads to the arrest or conviction of any person for a violation of welfare fraud as defined in section four of this article, which arrest or conviction saves the state or the division of human services money that would have been paid to the arrested or convicted person, shall receive as a reward for the information or testimony a sum equal to fifty percent of the money saved for a period of time not to exceed two years.
NOTE: This bill rewards persons who provide information or evidence of welfare fraud to the state which leads to the conviction of the person committing the fraud. It provides for payment of fifty percent of the money saved by the state as the result of the discovery of the fraud and conviction of the wrongdoer. The payments are to be paid for a period of up to two years.
Section four-a is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.