Senate Bill No. 31
(By Senator Unger)
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[Introduced January 8, 2003; referred 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 three
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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.