Bill Text: WV HB2310 | 2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requiring regional airport authority board members to include persons of area expertise

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-10 - To House Government Organization [HB2310 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2018-HB2310-Introduced.html

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West Virginia Legislature

2017 Regular Session

Introduced

House Bill 2310

 (By Delegates Folk and Hamrick)

[Introduced February 7, 2017; Referred
to the Committee on Government Organization then the Judiciary]

 

 

 

 

 

A BILL to amend and reenact §8-29-6 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to requiring regional airport authority board members to include persons of area expertise.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That §8-29-6 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:

ARTICLE 29.  INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS - REGIONAL AIRPORTS.

§8-29-6.  Qualification of members.

(a) All members of the board of each authority shall be residents of the municipality or county which said the members represent.

(b) The members of the airport authority must fairly represent different areas of interest, knowledge and expertise. The members of the authority shall include at least:

(1) One active commercial pilot holding at least a commercial pilot's license with related experience current with the Federal Aviation Administration;

(2) One member with aircraft maintenance experience holding at least an airframe and power plant license issued by and current with the Federal Aviation Administration; and

(3) One member with experience, knowledge and expertise in airport management.

 

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require regional airport authority board members to include persons of area expertise.

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