WEST virginia legislature
2021 regular session
Introduced
House Bill 2433
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 delegation of medication administration and health maintenance tasks to approved medication assistive personnel.
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 §16-5O-11 of this code, modified by the Department of Health and Human Resources to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on December 16, 2020, relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources (delegation of medication administration and health maintenance tasks to approved medication assistive personnel, 64 CSR 60), 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 delegation of medication administration and health maintenance tasks to approved medication assistive personnel.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.