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Senate Bill No. 227

(By Senators Bowman, Bailey, Dawson,

Kessler, McCabe, Minard, Redd, Walker,

Wooton, Boley and Minear)

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[Originating in the Committee on Government Organization;


reported January 27, 2000.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact section five, article three, chapter twenty-two-b of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to continuing the environmental quality board.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section five, article three, chapter twenty-two-b of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 3. ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY BOARD.
§22B-3-5. Environmental quality board continued.
Pursuant to the provisions of article ten, chapter four of this code, and following a preliminary performance review by the joint committee on government operations, the environmental quality board shall continue to exist until the first day of July, two thousand three, unless sooner terminated, continued or reestablished by act of the Legislature.