West Virginia House Bill 2703

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Introduced on February 20 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-20 - To House Energy and Public Works
Pending: House Energy and Public Works Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to incentivize counties to utilize local revenue sources for the purpose of construction, reconstruction, and maintaining roads and rights-of-way within said counties by requiring the state road commissioner to set aside 20 percent of the state road fund for the purpose of reimbursing said counties on a matching basis and to require the Commissioner of Highways to develop a formula for allocating road funds among districts, for the benefit of the counties; to make legislative findings; to require the commissioner to solicit and consider public comments; to require the commissioner to consider certain factors when developing the formula; and to require the commissioner to submit the formula to the Legislature for approval as a legislative rule.

Requiring the Commissioner of Highways to develop a formula for allocating road funds among districts

Del. Joe Funkhouser [R]

Del. Bill Ridenour [R]

Del. Michael Hornby [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-20	House	To House Energy and Public Works
2025-02-20	House	Introduced in House
2025-02-20	House	To Energy and Public Works then Finance
2025-02-20	House	Filed for introduction

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
17	3	6A	Amended Code	Citation Text
17	31	1	New Code	See Bill Text
17	31	2	New Code	See Bill Text
17	31	3	New Code	See Bill Text
17	31	4	New Code	See Bill Text
17	31	5	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2703&year=2025&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2703%20intr.htm&yr=2025&sesstype=RS&i=2703