WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

2024 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

House Bill 4157

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 Registered Nurses to promulgate a legislative rule relating to policies, standards and criteria for the evaluation, approval and national nursing accreditation of prelicensure nursing education programs.

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 Registered Nurses.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on August 1, 2023, authorized under the authority of §30-7-4 of this code, modified by the West Virginia Board of Registered Nurses to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on November 16, 2023, relating to the West Virginia Board of Registered Nurses (policies, standards and criteria for the evaluation, approval and national nursing accreditation of prelicensure nursing education programs, 19 CSR 01), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the West Virginia Board of Registered Nurses to promulgate a legislative rule relating to policies, standards and criteria for the evaluation, approval and national nursing accreditation of prelicensure nursing education programs.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.