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2021 West Virginia Code
Chapter 49. Child Welfare
Article 1. General Provisions and Definitions
§49-1-102. Legislative Intent; Continuation of Existing Statutory Provisions; No Increase in Funding Obligations
Universal Citation: WV Code § 49-1-102 (2021)
In recodifying the child welfare law of this state during the regular session of the Legislature in the year 2015, it is intended by the Legislature that each specific reenactment of a substantively similar prior statutory provision will be construed as continuing the intended meaning of the corresponding prior statutory provision and any existing judicial interpretation of the prior statutory provision. It is not the intent of the Legislature, by recodifying the child welfare law of this state during the regular session of the Legislature in the year 2015 to alter the substantive law of this state as it relates to child welfare or to increase or enlarge any funding obligation of any spending unit of the state.
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