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Senate Bill No. 501

(By Senators Fanning, Kessler, Foster, Bailey, Wells and McKenzie)

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[Introduced January 30, 2008; referred to the Committee on the Judiciary; and then to the Committee on Finance.]

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A BILL to amend and reenact §20-13-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to the transfer of the Stream Partners Program Fund from the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources to the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection in order to ensure a sufficient level of funding.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §20-13-3 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 13. WEST VIRGINIA STREAM PARTNERS PROGRAM.
§20-13-3. West Virginia stream partners program created; executive committee identified; program coordination.

There is hereby created The West Virginia Stream Partners Program and within the Division of Natural Resources there is hereby created is continued. The West Virginia Stream Partners Program Fund created within the Division of Natural Resources is transferred to the Department of Environmental Protection. Subject to annual appropriation of the Legislature into the West Virginia Stream Partners Program Fund, the program shall be jointly administered by the Division of Natural Resources, the division Department of Environmental Protection, the Division of Forestry and the West Virginia State Soil Conservation Agency. The director, secretary or commissioner of each of these administering agencies or his or her designee shall collectively constitute an executive committee to oversee the program. The Governor shall designate a member of the executive committee to serve as chair. The committee may designate a staff member from the existing staff of one of the administering agencies to coordinate the program on behalf of the executive committee. Pursuant to the provisions of article ten, chapter four of this code, the stream partners program and stream partners program fund shall continue to exist until the first day of July, two thousand six, unless sooner terminated, continued or reestablished by act of the Legislature.



NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to transfer the Stream Partners Program Fund from the Division of Natural Resources to the Department of Environmental Protection to ensure a sufficient level of funding.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
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