Senate Bill No. 117
(By Senators Unger and Snyder)
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[Introduced January 10, 2002; referred to the Committee
on the Judiciary; and then to the Committee on Finance.]
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A BILL to amend article two, chapter twenty-one-a of the code of
West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as
amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated
section twenty-four, relating to the bureau of employment
programs; conducting comparative cost-of-living studies
within the fifty-five counties of the state; and reporting
the results of the study to the joint committee on
government and finance by the first day of December every
year.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article two, chapter twenty-one-a 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-four, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. THE COMMISSIONER OF THE BUREAU OF EMPLOYMENT
PROGRAMS.
§21A-2-24. Comparative cost-of-living study.
The bureau of employment programs, by its commissioner,
shall conduct comparative cost-of-living studies of fifty-five
counties of the state to determine any differences in the cost
of living that may be shown in those counties. The results of
those studies shall be reported to the joint committee on
government and finance of the Legislature no later than the
first day of December every year beginning in two thousand two
.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require the Bureau of
Employment Programs to conduct comparative cost-of-living
studies within fifty-five counties of the state and report the
results of the study to the Joint Committee on Government and
Finance of the Legislature by the first day of December every
year.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and
underscoring have been omitted.