ENROLLED

Senate Bill No. 464

(By Senators Minard, Helmick, McCabe and Chafin)

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[Passed April 10, 2009; in effect ninety days from passage.]

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AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §5-16-24a, relating to authorizing the Public Employees Insurance Agency to establish a fee for paper transactions that could be performed electronically.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §5-16-24a, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 16. WEST VIRGINIA PUBLIC EMPLOYEES INSURANCE ACT.
§5-16-24a. Paper transactions.

The director may, by rule as authorized in section twenty-four of this article, establish a fee not to exceed $5 per transaction which the Public Employees Insurance Agency may charge to employers for performing business transactions with the agency by paper when the transaction could be performed electronically.