Bill Text: WV HB4277 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Repealing provision prohibiting employers from discriminating for use of tobacco products

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-26 - To House Health and Human Resources [HB4277 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2016-HB4277-Introduced.html

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WEST virginia Legislature

2016 regular session

Introduced

House Bill 4277

By Delegates Fast, Gearheart, Shaffer and Kessinger

[Introduced January 26, 2016; referred to the committee on Health and Human Resources then the Judiciary.]

A BILL to repeal §21-3-19 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to employer discrimination for use of tobacco products.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 3.  SAFETY AND WELFARE OF EMPLOYEES.

§1.  Repeal of section relating to prohibiting employers from discriminating for use of tobacco products.

§21-3-19 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, is hereby repealed.

 

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to repeal the provision prohibiting employers from discriminating for use of tobacco products.