WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2025 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
House Bill 3435
By Delegate Dillon
[Introduced March 17, 2025; referred to the Committee on Government Organization]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding two new sections, designated §7-1-17 and §8-11-6, relating to prohibiting municipalities and counties from enacting rent price controls.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
# CHAPTER 7. COUNTY COMMISSIONS AND OFFICERS.
ARTICLE 1. COUNTY COMMISSIONS GENERALLY.
# CHAPTER 8. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS.
## ARTICLE 11. POWERS AND DUTIES WITH RESPECT TO ORDINANCES AND ORDINANCE PROCEDURES.
A municipal ordinance may not enact rent price controls.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to prohibiting municipalities and counties from enacting rent price controls.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.