WV HB2595

Authorizes West Virginia higher education institutions to contract with private nonprofit corporations to conduct operational, economic, fiscal, and educational development activities related to intercollegiate athletics programs

Restricts voting corporate directors of athletics-related nonprofit corporations to only employees of the institution of higher education or its affiliates

Exempts athletics-related corporation activities from state open meetings requirements and Freedom of Information Act provisions

Permits institutions to transfer real and personal property to qualifying athletics corporations, exempt from standard state property transfer procedures

Grants athletics corporations broad authority to receive, purchase, hold, lease, sell, and dispose of property, own membership interests in other entities, and undertake activities allowed under the West Virginia Nonprofit Corporation Act