West Virginia Legislature

2023 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 319

BY Senator Woodrum

[Introduced January 202, 2023; 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 and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to medical examiner requirements for postmortem inquiries.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

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

§64-5-1. Bureau of Public Health.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on July 25, 2022, authorized under the authority of §16-12-3 of this code, modified by the Department of Health and Human Resources  to meet the objectives of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on October 14, 2022, relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources  (medical examiner requirements for postmortem inquiries, 64 CSR 84), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to medical examiner requirements for postmortem inquiries.

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