West Virginia Legislature

2024 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 131

BY Senator Woodrum

[Introduced January 10, 2024; referred

to the Committee on the Judiciary]

A BILL to amend and reenact §64-10-1 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Office of Miners' Health, Safety, and Training to promulgate a legislative rule relating to assessing health and safety violation penalties.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 10. Authorization for Department of commerce to promulgate legislative rules.

§64-10-1. Office of Miners' Health, Safety, and Training.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 27, 2023, authorized under the authority of §22-1-4 of this code, modified by the Office of Miners' Health, Safety, and Training to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on September 15, 2023, relating to the Office of Miners' Health, Safety, and Training (assessing health and safety violation penalties, 56 CSR 12), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Office of Miners' Health, Safety and Training to promulgate a legislative rule relating to governing assessing health and safety violation penalties.

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