The Senate Finance Committee has approved two bills to be reported to the floor with the recommendation that they pass.
HB 2709 would authorize the City of South Charleston to levy a special district excise tax for the benefit of the South Charleston Park Place Economic Opportunity Development District.
The bill had been laid over from the committee’s 9:30 a.m. meeting.
South Charleston City Manager Rick Atkinson was available to answer questions from the committee about the city’s pending economic development projects.
HB 2601 would provide a mechanism of correcting errors in payments to and from a municipal policemen’s or firemen’s pension fund and to provide a criminal offense for knowingly making a false statement in an attempt to defraud a municipal pension fund.
The bill was previously reported out of Senate Pensions with an amendment and the recommendation that it pass.
The committee will recess until 3 p.m., where they will consider Governor Justice’s budget bill, SB 199.
