West Virginia Legislature

2024 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 4134

BY Delegate Smith

[Introduced January 10, 2024; Referred

to Committee on Health and Human Resources then the Judiciary]

.A BILL to amend and reenact §64-9-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the West Virginia Board of Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensure, practice requirements, disciplinary and complaint procedures, continuing education, physician assistants.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 9. Authorization for Miscellaneous Boards and Agencies to promulgate legislative rules.

§64-9-1. West Virginia Board of Medicine.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 27, 2023, authorized under the authority of §30-3E-3 of this code, modified by the West Virginia Board of Medicine to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on November 1, 2023, relating to the West Virginia Board of Medicine (licensure, practice requirements, disciplinary and complaint procedures, continuing education, physician assistants, 11 CSR 01B), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the West Virginia Board of Medicine to promulgate a legislative rule relating to licensure, practice requirements, disciplinary and complaint procedures, continuing education, physician assistants.

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