Bill Text: WV SB626 | 2025 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Allowing members of regional airport boards to be residents of area in which airport is located
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-27 - To Economic Development [SB626 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2025-SB626-Introduced.html
WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2025 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
Senate Bill 626
By Senator Garcia
[Introduced February 27, 2025; referred to
the Committee on Economic Development; and then to the Committee on Government Organization]
A BILL to amend and reenact §8-29-6 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to allowing members of regional airport boards to be residents of the municipality or county in which the airport is located.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 29. INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS -- REGIONAL AIRPORTS.
§8-29-6. Qualification of members.
All mMembers of the board of each authority shall may be residents of either the municipality or county which said the members represent.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to allow member of airport authorities to be residents of the municipality or county in which the airport is located.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
