West Virginia House Bill 4642 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on February 22 2010 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-02-22 - To House Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary Committee

The purpose of this bill is to enter West Virginia into an interstate compact known as the Agreement Among the states to Elect the President by National Popular Vote. Under the compact, the state agrees to award its electoral votes to the presidential ticket that receives the most popular votes in all fifty states and the District of Columbia. The compact goes into effect when states cumulatively possessing a majority of the electoral votes have joined the compact. This article is new; therefore, it has been completely underscored.

Relating to the agreement among states to elect the president by national popular vote

Del. Bonnie Brown [D]	Sen. Michael Caputo [D]	Del. Jeff Eldridge [R]	Sen. Mark Hunt [R]
Del. Linda Longstreth [D]	Del. Dale Martin [D]	Del. Nancy Peoples Guthrie [D]	Del. William Romine [R]
Del. Ruth Rowan [R]	Del. Joe Talbott [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-02-22		To House Judiciary
2010-02-22		Introduced in House
2010-02-22		To Judiciary
2010-02-22		Filed for introduction

SB689 (Same As) 2010-02-22 - To Judiciary

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
3	1D	1	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4642&year=2010&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill