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Senate Finance Committee advances bill giving state auditor broad powers over fiscally distressed local governments
Summary
The Senate Finance Committee voted to report committee substitute for House Bill 35 17 as amended to the full Senate, advancing a bill that creates a statutory framework for identifying, monitoring and remediating fiscal emergencies in local governments and expands state oversight, including municipal dissolution procedures.
The West Virginia Senate Finance Committee voted to report committee substitute for House Bill 35 17, as amended, to the full Senate with a recommendation that it pass. Committee Counsel explained that the bill creates a new article in Chapter 6 of state code to identify, monitor and remediate fiscal emergencies in local governments and modernizes voluntary and involuntary municipal dissolution processes.
The bill matters because it would give the state auditor authority to intervene when local governments cannot meet fiscal obligations, require submission of financial recovery plans, and establish procedures for oversight and dissolution that could affect counties, municipalities and other local authorities. Committee Counsel said the measure…
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