WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2020 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 4291

By Delegate Foster

[Introduced January 14, 2020; 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 Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to qualifications for a provisional license to practice as a social worker within the Department of Health and Human Resources.

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 July 24, 2019, authorized under the authority of §30-30-16 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 November 25, 2019, relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources (qualifications for a provisional license to practice as a social worker within the Department of Health and Human Resources, 78 CSR 24), 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 qualifications for a provisional license to practice as a social worker within the Department of Health and Human Resources.

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