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SB241 H GO AM 3-1
The Committee on Government Organization moves to amend the bill on page two, by striking everything after the enacting clause and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
“That §5B-2-8, §5B-2-9, §5B-2-10, §5B-2-11, §5B-2-12 and §5B-2-12a of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be repealed; that §5B-1-2 of said code be amended and reenacted; that said code by added by adding thereto a new article, designated §5B-2H-1, §5B-2H-2, §5B-2H-3, §5B-2H-4, §5B-2H-5 and §5B-2H-6; that §5F-2-1 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §12-4-14 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §20-5-2 of said code be amended and reenacted; that §29-22A-10 and 29-22A-10b of said code be amended and reenact; and that §29-25-22 of said code be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:
(9) Division of Tourism and the Tourism Commission provided in article two-h, chapter five-b of this code.
ARTICLE 2H. THE DIVISION OF TOURISM AND TOURISM COMMISSION.
§5B-2H-1. Division of Tourism; Commissioner; Duties.
(a) The Division of Tourism is continued. The division is under the direction and charge of the Commissioner of Tourism.
(b) The commissioner shall be appointed by the Governor. The commissioner’s salary shall be set the Governor. The commissioner shall be a competent person, having executive ability and knowledge of publicity, advertising and tourist promotion.
(4) Promote attractions of West Virginia in other states;
(5) Distribute West Virginia informational publications and, manage the West Virginia Welcome Centers; and
(6) Administer the Matching Advertising Partnership Program Grants.
§5B-2H-2. Tourism Commission.
(a) The Tourism Commission is continued.
(b) Commencing July 1, 2011, the Tourism Commission shall consist of the following fifteen members:
(1) Thirteen members appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, representing participants in the state's tourism industry;
(2) The Secretary of Transportation or his or her designee, ex officio; and
(3) The Director of the Division of Natural Resources or his or her designee, ex officio.
(d) (1)The 13 members shall be appointed as follows:
(A) 10 members from the private sector;
(B) 1 member who is a director of a convention and visitors bureau;
(C) 1 member who represents public sector nonstate participants in the tourism industry within the state; and
(D) 1 member who is a member of a convention and visitors bureau.
(2) In making the appointments the Governor may select from a list of qualified applications provided by the West Virginia Hospitality and Travel Association.
(3) No fewer than 3 shall be from each congressional district within the state and shall be appointed to provide the broadest geographic distribution feasible;
(4) A member whose term has expired shall serve until his or her successor has been appointed and qualified.
(5) A person appointed to fill a vacancy shall serve only for the unexpired term. In cases of vacancy in the office of a member, such vacancy shall be filled by the Governor in the same manner as the original appointment.
(6) A member is eligible for reappointment.
(7) Members are not entitled to compensation for services performed as members.
(8) A majority of the appointed members shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of conducting business.
(9) The Governor shall appoint a chair of the commission for a term to run concurrent with the term of that appointee’s office. The chair may serve successive terms.
§5B-2H-3. Powers and duties of tourism commission.
(b) In developing its strategies, the commission shall consider:
(1) Improvement and expansion of existing tourism marketing and promotion activities; and
(c) The tourism commission may:
(1) Acquire for the state in the name of the commission by purchase, lease or agreement, or accept or reject for the state, in the name of the commission, gifts, donations, contributions, bequests or devises of money, security or property, both real and personal, and any interest in such property, to effectuate or support the purposes of this article;
(2) Make recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature of any legislation deemed necessary to facilitate the carrying out of any of the foregoing powers and duties and to exercise any other power that may be necessary or proper for the orderly conduct of the business of the commission and the effective discharge of the duties of the commission;
(3) Cooperate and assist in the production of motion pictures and television and other communications;
(4) Purchase advertising time or space in or upon any medium generally engaged or employed for said purpose to advertise and market the resources of the state or to inform the public at large or any specifically targeted group or industry about the benefits of living in, investing in, producing in, buying from, contracting with, or in any other way related to, the state of West Virginia or any business, industry, agency, institution or other entity therein: Provided, That of any funds appropriated and allocated for purposes of advertising and marketing expenses for the promotion and development of tourism, not less than 20% of the funds may be expended with the approval of the Director of the Division of Natural Resources to advertise, promote and market state parks, state forests, state recreation areas and wildlife recreational resources;
(5) Promote and disseminate information related to the attractions of the state through the operation of the state's telemarketing initiative, which telemarketing initiative shall include a centralized reservation and information system for state parks and recreational facilities;
(6) Employ or contract with a professional staff person qualified by reason of exceptional training and experience in the field of advertising to supervise the advertising and promotion functions of the commission;
(7) Take additional actions as may be necessary to carry out the duties and programs described in this article.
(d) The commission shall submit a report annually to the Secretary of Commerce, the Governor and the Legislature about the development of the tourism industry in the state and the funding required by the state to continue the development of the tourism industry.
(e) The commissioner shall assist the commission in the performance of its powers and duties, and may employ necessary personnel, contract with professional or technical experts or consultants and purchase or contract for the necessary equipment or supplies.
(f) The commission shall promulgate legislative rules pursuant to the provisions of chapter twenty-nine-a of this code to carry out its purposes and programs, to specifiy:
(2) Eligibility requirements for assistance of applications relating to assistance;
(3) Provisions for the management of West Virginia welcome centers.
(g) The commission may promulgate procedural rules pursuant to said chapter to include instructions and forms for applications relating to assistance.
§5B-2H-4. Program and policy action statement; submission to joint committee on government and finance.
The tourism commission shall prepare and submit to the Joint Committee on Government and Finance, annually, on or before December 1, a program and policy action statement which shall outline in specific detail according to the purpose, powers and duties of the office or section, its procedure, plan and program to be used in accomplishing its goals and duties as required under this article.
§5B-2H-5. Public private partnerships.
(a) The commission may enter into contractual or joint venture agreements with a nonprofit corporation organized pursuant to the corporate laws of the state, organized to permit qualification pursuant to Section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code and organized for purposes of the promotion and development of tourism in West Virginia, and funded from sources other than the state. Members of the commission may sit on the board of directors of the private nonprofit corporation.
(b) The commission may enter into joint ventures wherein the West Virginia Development Office and the nonprofit corporation share in the development and funding of tourism promotion or development programs.
(c) All contracts and joint venture agreements shall be approved by recorded vote of the commission. Contracts entered into pursuant to this section for longer than one fiscal year shall contain, in substance, a provision that the contract is canceled without further obligation on the part of the state if the Legislature or, where appropriate, the federal government fails to appropriate sufficient funds therefor or acts to impair the contract or cause it to be canceled.
§5B-2H-6. Tourism Promotion Fund created; use of funds.
There is continued in the state Treasury the special revenue fund known as the Tourism Promotion Fund.
(a) The Legislature finds that a courtesy patrol program providing assistance to motorists on the state's highways is one of the most beneficial methods to introduce a tourist visiting the state of the state's hospitality and good will. For that reason, $4,700,000 of the moneys deposited in the fund each year shall be deposited in a special revenue account in the state Treasury to be known as the “Courtesy Patrol Fund” according to the following schedule: On July 31 of each year, $850,000, and on the last day of each month thereafter, $350,000. Expenditures from the fund shall be used solely to fund the courtesy patrol program providing assistance to motorists on the state's highways. Amounts collected in the fund which are found, from time to time, to exceed funds needed for the purposes set forth in this subdivision may be transferred to other accounts or funds and redesignated for other purposes by appropriation of the Legislature.
(b) If there are funds remaining after the monthly distribution required in subdivision (a) of this section, a minimum of 5% of the moneys deposited remaining in the fund each year shall be used solely for direct advertising for West Virginia travel and tourism: Provided, That no less than 20% of these funds be expended, with the approval of the Director of the Division of Natural Resources, to effectively promote and market the state's parks, state forests, state recreation areas and wildlife recreational resources. Direct advertising means advertising which is limited to television, radio, mailings, newspaper, magazines, the Internet and outdoor billboards or any combination thereof.
(c) The balance of the moneys deposited in the fund shall be used for direct advertising within the state's travel regions as defined by the commission.
(2) “Person” includes any corporation, partnership, association, individual or other legal entity. The term “person” does not include a state spending unit or a local government as defined in section one-a, article nine, chapter six of this code.
(4) “State grant” means funding provided by a state spending unit, regardless of the original source of the funds, to a person upon application for a specific purpose. The term “state grant” does not include: (A) Payments for goods and services purchased by a state spending unit; (B) compensation to state employees and public officials; (C) reimbursements to state employees and public officials for travel or incidental expenses; (D) grants of student aid; (E) government transfer payments; (F) direct benefits provided under state insurance and welfare programs; (G) funds reimbursed to a person for expenditures made for qualified purposes when receipts for the expenditures are required prior to receiving the funds: Provided, That notwithstanding the provisions of this subdivision, funding provided pursuant to section twelve, article two, chapter five-b section six, article two-h, chapter five-b is included within the term “state grant”; (H) retirement benefits; and (I) federal pass-through funds that are subject to the federal Single Audit Act Amendments of 1996, 31 U.S.C. 7501, et seq. The term “state grant” does not include formula distributions to volunteer and part-volunteer fire departments made pursuant to sections fourteen-d and thirty-three, article three, chapter thirty-three of this code and section seven, article twelve-c of said chapter.
(b) (1) Any person who receives one or more state grants in the amount of $50,000 or more in the aggregate in a state’s fiscal year shall file with the grantor a report of the disbursement of the state grant funds. When the grantor causes an audit, by an independent certified public accountant, to be conducted of the grant funds, the audit is performed using generally accepted government auditing standards and a copy of the audit is available for public inspection, no report is required to be filed under this section. An audit performed that complies with Office of Management and Budget circular A-133, as published on June 27, 2003, and submitted within the period provided in this section may be substituted for the report.
(3) Reports and sworn statements of expenditures required by subdivisions (1) and (2) of this subsection shall be filed within two years of the end of the person’s fiscal year in which the disbursement of state grant funds by the grantor was made. The report shall be made by an independent certified public accountant at the cost of the person receiving the state grant. State grant funds may be used to pay for the report if the applicable grant provisions allow. The scope of the report is limited to showing that the state grant funds were spent for the purposes intended when the grant was made.
(e) (1) Any state agency administering a state grant shall, in the manner designated by the Legislative Auditor, notify the Legislative Auditor of the maximum amount of funds to be disbursed, the identity of the person authorized to receive the funds, the person’s fiscal year and federal employer identification number and the purpose and nature of the state grant within thirty days of making the state grant or authorizing the disbursement of the funds, whichever is later. If the state grant was awarded prior to October 1, 2005, the grantor shall provide the information required by this section by December 1, 2005.
(4) The Legislative Auditor may assign an employee or employees to perform audits or reviews at the direction of the Legislative Auditor of the disbursement of state grant funds to volunteer fire departments. The volunteer fire department shall cooperate with the Legislative Auditor, the Legislative Auditor’s employees and the State Auditor in performing their duties under this section. If the Legislative Auditor determines a volunteer fire department is not cooperating, the Legislative Auditor shall notify the state Treasurer who shall withhold payment of any amount that would otherwise be distributed to the fire department under the provisions of sections fourteen-d and thirty-three, article three, chapter thirty-three of this code and section seven, article twelve-c of said chapter until the Legislative Auditor informs the Treasurer that the fire department has cooperated as required by this section. The State Treasurer shall pay the amount withheld into a special revenue account hereby created in the state Treasury and designated the "Volunteer Fire Department Audit Account". If, after one year from payment of the amount withheld into the special revenue account, the Legislative Auditor informs the state Treasurer of continued noncooperation by the fire department, the state Treasurer shall pay the amount withheld to the fund from which it was distributed to be redistributed the following year pursuant to the applicable provisions of those sections.
(a) The Director of the Division of Natural Resources is responsible for the execution and administration of the provisions in this article as an integral part of the parks and recreation program of the state and shall organize and staff the section of parks and recreation for the orderly, efficient and economical accomplishment of these ends. The authority granted in the year one thousand nine hundred ninety-four to the Director of the Division of Natural Resources to employ up to six additional unclassified personnel to carry out the parks’ functions of the Division of Natural Resources is continued.
(B) Funds authorized for expenditure from the Tourism Promotion Fund for purposes of direct advertising, pursuant to section twelve, article two, chapter five-b section six, article two-h, chapter five-b of this code and section ten, article twenty-two-a, chapter twenty-nine of this code;
(b) The gross terminal income of a licensed racetrack shall be remitted to the commission through the electronic transfer of funds. Licensed racetracks shall furnish to the commission all information and bank authorizations required to facilitate the timely transfer of moneys to the commission. Licensed racetracks must provide the commission thirty days' advance notice of any proposed account changes in order to assure the uninterrupted electronic transfer of funds. From the gross terminal income remitted by the licensee to the commission, the commission shall deduct an amount sufficient to reimburse the commission for its actual costs and expenses incurred in administering racetrack video lottery at the licensed racetrack, and the resulting amount after the deduction is the net terminal income. The amount deducted for administrative costs and expenses of the commission may not exceed four percent of gross terminal income: Provided, That any amounts deducted by the commission for its actual costs and expenses that exceeds its actual costs and expenses shall be deposited into the state Lottery Fund. For the fiscal years ending June 30, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, the term “actual costs and expenses” shall include transfers of no more than $20,000,000 in any year to the Revenue Center Construction Fund created by subsection (l), section eighteen, article twenty-two of this chapter for the purpose of constructing a state office building. For all fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 2001, the commission shall not receive an amount of gross terminal income in excess of the amount of gross terminal income received during the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2001, but four percent of any amount of gross terminal income received in excess of the amount of gross terminal income received during the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2001, shall be deposited into the fund established in section eighteen-a, article twenty-two of this chapter.
(c) Net terminal income shall be divided as set out in this subsection. For all fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 2001, any amount of net terminal income received in excess of the amount of net terminal income received during the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2001, shall be divided as set out in section ten-b of this article. The licensed racetrack's share is in lieu of all lottery agent commissions and is considered to cover all costs and expenses required to be expended by the licensed racetrack in connection with video lottery operations. The division shall be made as follows:
(8)(A) The tourism promotion fund established in section twelve, article two, chapter five-b section six, article two-h, chapter five-b of this code shall receive three percent of the net terminal income: Provided, That for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2003, the tourism commission shall transfer from the tourism promotion fund $5,000,000 of the three percent of the net terminal income described in this section and section ten-b of this article into the fund administered by the West Virginia economic development authority pursuant to section seven, article fifteen, chapter thirty-one of this code, $5,000,000 into the capitol renovation and improvement fund administered by the Department of Administration pursuant to section six, article four, chapter five-a of this code and $5,000,000 into the tax reduction and federal funding increased compliance fund; and
(i) 1.375 percent of the total amount of net terminal income described in this section and in section ten-b of this article shall be deposited into the tourism promotion fund created under section twelve, article two, chapter five-b section six, article two-h, chapter five-b of this code;
(9)(A) On and after July 1, 2005, seven percent of net terminal income shall be deposited into the workers' compensation debt reduction fund created in section five, article two-d, chapter twenty-three of this code: Provided, That in any fiscal year when the amount of money generated by this subdivision totals $11,000,000, all subsequent distributions under this subdivision shall be deposited in the special fund established by the licensee and used for the payment of regular purses in addition to the other amounts provided for in article twenty-three, chapter nineteen of this code;
(8) The tourism promotion fund established in section twelve, article two, chapter five-b section six, article two-h, chapter five-b of this code shall receive three percent of the net terminal income: Provided, That for each fiscal year beginning after June 30, 2004, this three percent of net terminal income shall be distributed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (B), subdivision (8), subsection (c), section ten of this article;
(9) (A) On and after July 1, 2005, four percent of net terminal income shall be deposited into the Workers’ Compensation Debt Reduction Fund created in section five, article two-d, chapter twenty-three of this code: Provided, That in any fiscal year when the amount of money generated by this subdivision together with the total allocation transferred by the operation of subdivision (9), subsection (c), section ten of this article totals $11,000,000, all subsequent distributions under this subdivision (9) during that fiscal year shall be deposited in the special fund established by the licensee and used for payment of regular purses in addition to other amounts provided in article twenty-three, chapter nineteen of this code;
(a) There is hereby created a special fund in the state Treasury which shall be designated and known as the Historic Resort Hotel Fund. Thirty-six percent of the gross terminal income received by the commission under section twenty of this article and thirty percent of the adjusted gross receipts received by the commission under section twenty-one of this article shall be deposited with the state Treasurer and placed in the Historic Resort Hotel Fund. The fund shall be an interest bearing account with interest to be credited to and deposited in the Historic Resort Hotel Fund.
(c) The balance of the Historic Resort Hotel Fund shall become net income and shall be divided as follows:
(1) Sixty-four percent of the Historic Resort Hotel Fund net income shall be paid into the General Revenue Fund to be ppropriated by the Legislature;
(3) The Tourism Promotion Fund established in section twelve, article two, chapter five-b section six, article two-h, chapter five-b of this code shall receive three percent of the Historic Resort Hotel Fund net income;