WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE

 2024 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 19

BY Senator Woodrum

[Introduced January 10, 2024; referred

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 to promulgate a legislative rule relating to behavioral health center’s licensure.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

ARTICLE 5. Authorization for the Department of health and humahn resources to promulgate legislative rules.

§64-5-1. Department of Health.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 13, 2023, authorized under the authority of §27-9-1 of this code, modified by the Department of Health to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on November 7, 2023, relating to the Department of Health (behavioral health centers licensure, 64 CSR 11), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to behavioral health centers licensure.

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