Bill Text: WV HB2898 | 2017 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Authorizing the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to request and obtain criminal background checks of employees of the Legislature
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-23 - Chapter 147, Acts, Regular Session, 2017 [HB2898 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2017-HB2898-Enrolled.html
WEST virginia legislature
2017 regular session
ENROLLED
Committee Substitute
for
House Bill 2898
By Mr. Speaker (Mr. Armstead)
[Passed April 5, 2017; in effect ninety days from passage.]
AN ACT to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §4-3-6, relating to authorizing the Joint Committee on Government and Finance to request and obtain criminal background checks of employees of the Legislature.
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 §4-3-6, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 3. JOINT COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT AND FINANCE.
§4-3-6. Authority to screen employees of the Legislature; background checks.
The Joint Committee on Government and Finance shall create and implement a background check program to facilitate the processing and analysis of the criminal history and background of applicants for employment by the Legislature. In the course of determining an applicant’s eligibility for employment with the Legislature, the legislative manager shall request each applicant to submit a full set of fingerprints for the purpose of conducting a criminal history record check. Records shall be checked through the Criminal Identification Bureau of the West Virginia State Police and the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation for a national criminal history record check and the results shall be made available to the Director of the Division of Protective Services. If the results of the criminal history check reveal an offense or offenses, the Director of the Division of Protective Services shall advise the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Delegates or the joint committee depending on the appropriate hiring authority for the position sought by the applicant.
