State ex rel. West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority v. West Virginia Investment Management Board

MAYNARD, Justice:

In this original mandamus proceeding, the relator, the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority, requests that this Court evaluate the constitutionality of House Bill 4702 (1998),1 a recent enactment of the West Virginia Legislature.2 This bill directs the respondent, the West Virginia Investment Management Board, the group charged with investing the funds of the Public Employees Pension System, to invest $150,000,000 of the pension system funds in the West Virginia Jail and Correctional Facility Authority to enable it to complete the construction or…