FISCAL NOTE
FISCAL NOTE
2025 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
Senate Bill 294
By Senator Azinger
[Introduced February 12, 2025; referredto the Committee on Government Organization; and then to the Committee on Finance]
A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding a new section, designated ยง5A-4-7, relating to the replacement of the statue of the Honorable Robert C. Byrd with a statue of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, and Arthur I. Boreman, one each, placed in a corner of the rotunda of the Capitol.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
## ARTICLE 4. GENERAL SERVICES DIVISION.
(a) The Legislature directs the secretary of the Department of Administration to plan and replace the statue of Robert C. Byrd with a statue of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, and Arthur I. Boreman, one each, placed in a corner of the rotunda of the Capitol.
(b) The General Services Division of the Department of Administration shall use funds from the special "capitol renovation and improvement fund" previously created for funding of the replacement of the Robert C. Byrd statue and creation and placement of the statues of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, and Arthur I. Boreman.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to replace the statue of the Robert C. Byrd with a statue of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, and Arthur I. Boreman, placed in each corner of the rotunda of the Capitol.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.