Bill Text: WV HB4660 | 2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requiring state agencies to maintain updated records of all financial transactions in a searchable website

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-03 - To House Government Organization [HB4660 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2020-HB4660-Introduced.html

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WEST virginia legislature

2020 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 4660

By Delegates Wilson, D. Jeffries, C. Martin, Phillips, P. Martin, Steele, Dean, Bibby, Hardy, Foster and J. Jeffries

[Introduced February 03, 2020; 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 §5A-8-24, relating to requiring each state government agency to maintain updated records of all financial transactions in an updated, publicly accessible, searchable website.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 8. PUBLIC RECORDS MANAGEMENT AND PRESERVATION ACT.

§5A-8-24.  Updated website required.

Beginning July 1, 2021, each department of West Virginia state government shall maintain updated records of all financial transactions in a publicly accessible, searchable website.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require state agencies to maintain updated records of all financial transactions in a searchable website.

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