COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
FOR
Senate Bill No. 594
(By Senator Rowe)
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[Originating in the Committee on Government Organization;
reported April 4, 2001.]
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A BILL 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.
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(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require a preliminary
performance review of the workers' compensation appeal board. The
bill also provides a termination date of July 1, 2003, for the
Board.
§23-5-17 is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring
have been omitted.)