WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2022 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 4136

BY Delegate Foster

[Introduced January 18, 2022; Referred to the Committee on Health and Human Resources then the Judiciary]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-5-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Health Care Authority to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Certificate of Need.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

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

§64-5-1. Health Care Authority.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 30, 2021, authorized under the authority of §16-2D-4 of this code, modified by the Health Care Authority  to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on December 20, 2021, relating to the Health Care Authority  (Certificate of Need , 65 CSR 32), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Health Care Authority to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Certificate of Need.

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