WEST VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE
2024 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced
Senate Bill 20
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 hospital licensure.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 13, 2023, authorized under the authority of §16-5B-8 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 (hospital licensure, 64 CSR 12), is authorized.
NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Health to promulgate a legislative rule relating to hospital licensure.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from a heading or the present law and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.