West Virginia legislation · 2026 Regular Session
West Virginia HB5063: To permit the county commission to appoint a county commissioner to a convention and visitor’s bureau as a voting member
Status: Chaptered, March 14, 2026
What the bill says
An act to amend and reenact §7-18-13a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to convention and visitor's bureau; and permitting the county commission to appoint a county commissioner to a convention and visitor's bureau as a voting member. ARTICLE 18. HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX. §7-18-13a. Annual reports by convention and visitor's bureaus; eligibility for hotel occupancy tax proceeds. (a) On or before 90 days after the end of its fiscal year, every convention and visitor's bureau which receives any appropriation of hotel occupancy tax from one or more counties or municipalities sha.
From the enrolled text, March 12, 2026:
AN ACT to amend and reenact §7-18-13a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to convention and visitor's bureau; and permitting the county commission to appoint a county commissioner to a convention and visitor's bureau as a voting member. ARTICLE 18. HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX. §7-18-13a. Annual reports by convention and visitor's bureaus; eligibility for hotel occupancy tax proceeds. (a) On or before 90 days after the end of its fiscal year, every convention and visitor's bureau which receives any appropriation of hotel occupancy tax from one or more counties or municipalities shall file with each such county or municipality, the State Auditor, the Joint Committee on Government and Finance, and the West Virginia Association of Convention and Visitors Bureaus a report, including an income statement and balance sheet, showing all amounts of hotel occupancy tax appropriated to the convention and visitor's bureau and all expenditures of hotel occupancy tax made by the convention and visitor's bureau for the prior fiscal year, as well as any such information required by subsection (b) of this section. A convention and visitor's bureau that has not filed a report in accordance with the provisions of this section shall be ineligible to receive additional appropriations of hotel occupancy tax proceeds until such report has been filed. (b) In order to qualify for …