Bill Text: WV HB2427 | 2017 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requiring agencies listed in the online state phone directory to update certain employee information

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-3)

Status: (Passed) 2017-05-23 - Chapter 109, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 [HB2427 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2017-HB2427-Introduced.html

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WEST virginia Legislature

                        2017 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 2427

By Delegates Howell, Arvon, Atkinson, Blair, Hamrick, Hartman, Lynch and Ferro

[Introduced February 14, 2017; Referred
to the Committee on Government Organization.]

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §5F-1-5, relating to requiring agencies listed in the online state phone directory to update certain employee information by July 1, 2017 or provide that information to the Office of Technology; requiring agencies to update directory information within 30 days of a personnel action or event, or provide that information to the Office of Technology; and requiring the Office of Technology to update directory information within 30 days of receipt of information from an agency.

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 §5F-1-5, to read as follows:

ARTICLE 1.  General provisions.

§5F-1-5. Online state phone directory. 

(a) Beginning July 1, 2017, each agency listed in the online state phone directory shall update the employee information in the directory, as required in this subsection, or provide to the Office of Technology the following information for each agency employee:

(1)  Employee name;

(2)  Office location and mailing address, including name of city and zip code;

(3)  Office telephone number, including extension; and

(4)  Electronic mail address.

(b) Each agency listed in the online state phone directory shall update the online state phone directory information within thirty days after personnel action or event that would require the agency to add, modify, or delete information from the directory, or the agency shall provide that information to the Office of Technology.

(c) The Office of Technology shall, within thirty days of receipt of updated employee information from an agency, make the requested changes to the online state phone directory.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require agencies to provide updated employee information for the online state phone directory, and require that agencies update the information within thirty days of a change, or provide that information to the Office of Technology which shall update the online phone directory information within thirty days of receipt of information from an agency.

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

This bill is recommended by the Joint Standing Committee on Government Organization for introduction and passage during the 2017 Regular Session.