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Timestamp: 2018-12-10 01:10:55
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SB657 SUB1
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new article, designated §21-1D-1, §21-1D-2, §21-1D-3, §21-1D-4, §21-1D-5, §21-1D-6, §21-1D-7, §21-1D-8 and §21-1D-9, all relating to the West Virginia Alcohol and Drug-Free Workplace Act; providing definitions; providing a statement of policy; requiring public improvement contractors to have and implement a drug-free workplace program that requires drug and alcohol testing; requiring a drug-free workplace policy to be posted at a public improvement construction site; requiring drug-free workplace records and contents be open for inspection; providing penalties; and providing that this article shall only apply to contracts awarded after this article takes effect.
Except as provided in section eight of this article, no public authority may award a public improvement contract to a contractor unless the terms of the contract require the contractor and its subcontractors to implement and maintain a written drug-free workplace policy in compliance with this article and the contractor and its subcontractors provide a sworn statement in writing, under the penalties of perjury, that they maintain a valid drug-free workplace policy in compliance with this article.The public improvement contract shall provide for the following:
After the first day of July, two thousand eight, any solicitation for a public improvement contract shall require each contractor that submits a bid for the work to submit at the same time an affidavit that the contractor has a written plan for a drug-free workplace policy. A public improvement contract may not be awarded to a contractor who does not have a written plan for a drug-free workplace policy.
(E) The testing of a urine specimen of an individual to determine if the individual ingested, was injected or otherwise introduced with a drug of abuse in a manner that conforms to scientifically accepted analytical methods and procedures that may include verification or confirmation of any positive test result by gas chromatography or mass spectrometry.
(9) Require a contractor to provide to any employee testing positive for a drug of abuse or alcohol the opportunity to be evaluated by a licensed substance abuse professional who can assist the employee in seeking treatment if needed;
(12) Require that a contractor provide within six weeks of new employment at least two hours of drug-free workplace employee education for all employees and annually thereafter. The employee education shall include all of the following:
Every contractor shall keep an accurate record showing the names, occupation and safety-sensitive status of all employees, in connection with the construction on the public improvement, and showing any drug tests or alcohol tests performed and employee education and supervisor training received, which record shall be open at all reasonable hours to the inspection of and the public authority which let the contract and its officers and agents. It is not necessary to preserve the record for a period longer than three years after the termination of the contract.
(NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to create the West Virginia Alcohol and Drug-Free Workplace Act, to require public improvement contractors to have and implement a drug-free workplace program that requires drug and alcohol testing be conducted by a contractor.
This article is new, therefore strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.)