ENGROSSED
Senate Bill No. 406
(By Senators Love, Ball, Hunter, Fanning,
Schoonover, Mitchell, Deem and Sharpe)
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[Introduced February 3, 1999;
referred to the Committee on Government Organization;
and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend article eleven, chapter twenty-one of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section
twenty, relating to authorizing the contractor licensing
board to provide public education services through
vocational schools to assist applicants in obtaining a
contractor's license.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article eleven, chapter twenty-one of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be
amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section
twenty, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 11. WEST VIRGINIA CONTRACTOR LICENSING ACT.
§21-11-20. Board authorized to provide training.
(a) The West Virginia contractor licensing board may enter
into work-sharing agreements with state vocational and technical
training schools to provide classroom training to students who
desire to obtain a West Virginia contractor license. The purpose
of the training is limited to instruction applicable to the
contractor license examinations required by the board. Under the
terms of the work-sharing agreements, the following apply:
(1) The board shall:
(A) Provide a course curriculum for each contractor
classification for which instruction will be provided;
(B) Make available all necessary study materials which shall
become the property and the responsibility of the school; and
(C) Shall provide funding, when available, to offset the
cost of providing the instruction.
(2) The school shall:
(A) Adhere to the curriculum established and provided by the
board;
(B) Provide from its staff an instructor qualified to
provide the required instruction;
(C) Provide a classroom facility where the instruction may
be conducted;
(D) Maintain an adequate supply of study materials; and
(E) Charge no admission fee to students unless specifically
authorized by the board.SB406 S
FIN AM #1
The Committee on Finance moved to amend the bill on page
two, section twenty, line seven, after the word "board." by
striking out the remainder of subsection (a) and inserting in
lieu thereof the following: The terms
of the work-sharing agreements shall be determined by the West
Virginia contractor licensing board and county boards of
education.
Adopted
Rejected
(b) For the purposes of this section, the board is
authorized to expend funds from its special revenue account,
known as the contractor licensing fund, to support this activity.
Funding is to be limited to the availability of funds and may not
exceed fifty thousand dollars annually.
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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the
Contractor Licensing Board to provide public education services
through vocational schools to assist applicants in obtaining a
contractor's license.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.)
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FINANCE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
On page ___, section twenty, line ___, after the word
"board." by striking out the remainder of subsection (a) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: The terms of the work- sharing agreements shall be determined by the West Virginia
contractor licensing board and county boards of education.