2025 Regular Session
Link to Bill History on Legacy Website (Click Here)Summary: To require than an individual serving on two or more boards or commissions to recuse themselves when decision-making involves both entities
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WEST virginia legislature
2025 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 3262
By Delegates G. Howell, Masters, and Kump
[Introduced March 07, 2025; referred to the Committee on Government Organization]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding a new section, designated §7-1-17, relating to providing for the recusal of a county commissioner in certain circumstances.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 1. COUNTY COMMISSIONS GENERALLY.
§7-1-17. Recusal of county commissioner in certain circumstances.
If an individual is serving as a county commissioner while also serving voluntarily on a non statutory board with an issue to be voted on by both bodies, that county commissioner shall recuse himself or herself from the decision-making process that involves both entities.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to provide for the recusal of a county commissioner in certain circumstances.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.