ENROLLED
COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 594
(Senator Rowe, original sponsors)
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[Passed April 12, 2001; to take effect July 1, 2001.]
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AN ACT to amend article five, chapter twenty-three of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section
seventeen, relating to requiring a preliminary performance
review of and a termination date for the workers' compensation
appeal board.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article five, chapter twenty-three of the code of West
Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by
adding thereto a new section, designated section seventeen, to read
as follows:
ARTICLE 5. REVIEW.
§23-5-17. Workers' compensation appeal board termination.
Pursuant to the provisions of article ten, chapter four of
this code, the workers' compensation appeal 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.