WEST virginia Legislature
2018 regular session
Introduced
Senate Bill 170
By Senator Maynard
[Introduced
January 11, 2018; Referred
to the Committee on Health and Human Resources; and then to the Committee on
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 development of methodologies to examine needs for substance use disorder treatment facilities within the state.
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 28, 2017, authorized under the authority of §16-53-3 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 October 25, 2017, relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources (development of methodologies to examine needs for substance use disorder treatment facilities within the state, 69 CSR 13), 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 development of methodologies to examine needs for substance use disorder treatment facilities within the state.
This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.