Bill Text: WV SB344 | 2018 | Regular Session | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Requiring DOH implement program to recycle surplus metal supplies, materials and equipment
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-21 - To Finance [SB344 Detail]
Download: West_Virginia-2018-SB344-Comm_Sub.html
WEST virginia legislature
2018 regular session
Committee Substitute
for
Senate Bill 344
By Senators Sypolt and Baldwin
[Originating in the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure; Reported on February 21, 2018]
A BILL to amend and reenact §17-2A-14 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to disposition of certain surplus equipment, supplies, and materials; requiring the West Virginia Commissioner of Highways design and implement a policy to assure recycling of metal if cost effective; and updating code.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
ARTICLE 2A. WEST VIRGINIA COMMISSIONER OF HIGHWAys.
§17-2A-14. Disposition of surplus, etc., equipment and materials; inventories; requiring metal recycling if cost effective.
(a) The commissioner shall dispose of obsolete and
unusable equipment, surplus supplies, and other unneeded materials, either by
transfer to other governmental agencies or institutions, by exchange or trade,
or by sale as junk or otherwise. The commissioner shall adopt and promulgate
rules and regulations propose rules for legislative approval in
accordance with the provisions of §29A-3-1 et seq. of this code governing
and controlling the disposition of all such equipment, supplies, and materials.
He or she shall advertise, by newspaper publication or otherwise, the
availability or sales of such disposable equipment, supplies, and materials and
may sell same, in whole or in part, at public auction, or may transfer,
exchange, or trade same (if by exchange or trade, then without advertising), in
whole or in part, as sound business practices may warrant under existing
circumstances and conditions. The commissioner shall inventory all such
disposable equipment, supplies, and materials from time to time as quantity and
stocks may warrant but shall make a complete semiannual inventory thereof as of
March 31 and September 30, of each year. He or she may report such
the inventories to the director of purchases Purchasing
Division within the Department of Administration whose services and
facilities shall be available to the commissioner in making advantageous
disposition of any part or all of such disposable equipment, supplies, and
materials. Such The inventories shall briefly describe the
disposable items, the date of purchase thereof, the vendor to the commissioner,
the purchase price paid therefor, and the commissioner's order number
authorizing disposition thereof and shall indicate briefly the reason said
items are no longer needed or can no longer be used by the commission. All such
the inventories shall be kept as public records open to public inspection
at the office of the commissioner for a period of five years and may thereafter
be destroyed.
(b) The commissioner shall design and implement a policy to assure that surplus metal supplies, equipment, and materials are recycled, if recycling is cost effective, instead of discarded.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require the Commissioner of Highways to implement a program to recycle, rather than discard surplus metal supplies, materials, and equipment if recycling is cost effective.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.
