More Changes, and Maybe a Special Session, for WV Tank Bill

"CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- As a House committee introduced a fourth version of a sprawling bill to regulate chemical storage tanks and drinking water in West Virginia, more than a quarter of House of Delegates members want a special legislative session to give them more time to consider the bill."



"Delegate Meshea Poore, D-Kanawha, asked Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin to call for the special session to focus solely on the water bill. She was joined by a bipartisan group of 26 other Delegates, including Minority Leader Tim Armstead, R-Kanawha.

 'We will miss a golden opportunity to produce legislation that will instill a renewed sense of confidence in the administrative and legislative branches of West Virginia's governance structure,' Poore said in the letter. '[A] resolution requires more time and concentration than the regular session affords.'

But House Speaker Tim Miley, D-Harrison, and Judiciary Chairman Tim Manchin, D-Marion, both said the special session was unnecessary."

David Gutman reports for the Charleston Gazette February 27, 2014.

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"W. Va. Chemical Spill Legislation Stalls" (Aljazeera America)

Source: Charleston Gazette, 02/28/2014