WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2021 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 2428

By Delegate Foster

[Introduced February 13, 2021; Referred

to the Committee on Government Organization]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-5-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to hospital licensure.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 5. Authorization for Department of health and human resources to promulgate legislative rules.

§64-5-1. Department of Health and Human Resources.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on August 21, 2020, authorized under the authority of §16-5B-8 of this code, relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources (hospital licensure, 64 CSR 12), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to hospital licensure.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.