West Virginia legislation · 2025 Regular Session
West Virginia HB3376: Allowing for an emergency levy election to be held under certain circumstances.
Status: Introduced, March 14, 2025
The purpose of this bill is to provide for the Save the School Levy Act. The bill provides that an emergency levy election may be conducted outside of a normally scheduled primary or election date for the purpose of holding a special levy election to address school consolidation issues.
What the bill says
To amend and reenact §11-8-17 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to providing for the Save the School Levy Act; and providing that an emergency levy election may be conducted outside of a normally scheduled primary or election date for the purpose of holding a special levy election to address impending school consolidation issues. ARTICLE 8. LEVIES. §11-8-17. Special levy elections; notices; conduct of election; supplies; canvass of returns; form of ballot; special circumstances for proposed school consolidations. (a) The local levying body shall publish a notice.
From the introduced text, March 14, 2025:
A BILL to amend and reenact §11-8-17 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to providing for the Save the School Levy Act; and providing that an emergency levy election may be conducted outside of a normally scheduled primary or election date for the purpose of holding a special levy election to address impending school consolidation issues. ARTICLE 8. LEVIES. §11-8-17. Special levy elections; notices; conduct of election; supplies; canvass of returns; form of ballot; special circumstances for proposed school consolidations. (a) The local levying body shall publish a notice, calling the election, as a Class II-0 legal advertisement in compliance with the provisions of §59-3-1 et seq. of this code, and the publication area for such publication shall be the territory in which the election is held. Such notice shall be so published within 14 consecutive days next preceding the election. (b) All the provisions of the law concerning general elections shall apply so far as they are practicable: Provided, That notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary, in the case of a levy which expires at a time after July 1, 2022, and which shall not be up for renewal at the next regularly scheduled primary or general election thereafter, the local levying body shall by ordinance choose to hold the election to …