2025 Regular Session
Link to Bill History on Legacy Website (Click Here)Summary: Establishing revocation of authority for spending by agency in support of challenge to WV law
PDF: sb213 intr.pdf
DOCX: SB213 INTR.docx
WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2025 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
Senate Bill 213
By Senator Tarr
[Introduced February 12, 2025; referred
to the Committee on the Judiciary; and then to the Committee on Finance]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding a new article, designated §12-3-21, relating to establishing the revocation of authority for spending by an agency in support of a challenge to West Virginia law.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 3. LIMITATIONS ON AGENCY SPENDING.
§12-3-21. Limitation on agencies' use of funding.
Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, there is no spending authority for any political subdivision or state agency for the purposes of challenging a West Virginia state law.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to prohibit spending authority for money used by an agency in support of a challenge to WV law.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.