WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2018 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 4129

By Delegates Sobonya and Frich

[Introduced January 15, 2018; 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 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 July 28, 2017, authorized under the authority of §16-5B-8 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 August 30, 2017, 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.