Senate Bill No. 225

(By Senators Ross, Anderson, Boley,

Buckalew, Grubb and Macnaughtan)


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[Introduced January 29, 1996; referred to the

Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend article nine, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section nine, relating to authorizing the state election commission to promulgate legislative rules relating to corporate political activity.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article nine, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section nine, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 9. AUTHORIZATION FOR MISCELLANEOUS BOARDS AND AGENCIES TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-9-9. State election commission.
The legislative rules filed in the state register on the thirty-first day of July, one thousand nine hundred ninety-five, under the authority of section eight, article eight, chapter three, of this code, modified by the state election commission to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-second day of December, one thousand nine hundred ninety-five, relating to the state election commission (corporate political activity, 146 CSR 1), are authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the State Election Commission to promulgate legislative rules relating to corporate political activity.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.