West Virginia House Bill 2996 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 24 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-02-24 - To House Judiciary
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

The purpose of this bill is to prohibit public officials and employees from using public funds for self promotion. The bill prohibits knowingly and intentionally placing the names or likenesses of public officials and employees on trinkets. The bill prohibits knowingly and intentionally placing the names or likenesses of public officials and employees on certain publically-financed advertising during an election period. The bill makes these prohibitions violations of the West Virginia Governmental Ethics Act. The bill also defines terms.

Prohibiting public officials and employees from using public funds for self promotion

Del. Michel Moffatt [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-02-24	House	To House Judiciary
2015-02-24	House	Introduced in House
2015-02-24	House	To Judiciary
2015-02-24	House	Filed for introduction

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=2996&year=2015&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill
Text	http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=hb2996%20intr.htm&yr=2015&sesstype=RS&i=2996