Bill Text: WV HB5544 | 2024 | Regular Session | Comm Sub

West Virginia House Bill 5544

Bill Title: Relating to requiring certain reporting from the Mountaineer Trail Network Authority each year

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 11-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-03-09 - House Message received [HB5544 Detail]

Download: West_Virginia-2024-HB5544-Comm_Sub.html

WEST virginia legislature

2024 regular session

Committee Substitute

for

House Bill 5544

By Delegates Howell, W. Clark, Dittman, Martin, Fehrenbacher, Jeffries, Hott, Phillips, Hillenbrand, Burkhammer, and Hanshaw (Mr. Speaker)

[Originating in the Committee on Economic Development and Tourism; Reported on February 15, 2024]

A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §20-17A-6, relating to requiring certain reporting from the Mountaineer Trail Network Authority each year and beginning on December 1, 2024.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

Article 17A. Mountaineer Trail Network Recreation Authority.

§20-17A-6. Reporting.

(a) There shall be an annual report made from the Mountaineer Trail Network Authority to the Joint Committee on Economic Development concerning:

(1) Progress made towards the goals laid out in §20-17-1 et seq. and §20-17A-1 et seq. of this code;

(2) A report of grants requested and received; and

(3) Progress made on other projects within the Trail Networks throughout the state.

(b) This reporting shall begin on December 1, 2024.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require certain reporting from the Mountaineer Trail Network Authority each year and beginning on December 1, 2024.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.