West Virginia Legislature

2024 REGULAR SESSION

Introduced

Senate Bill 78

BY Senator Woodrum

[Introduced January 10, 2024; referred

to the Committee on 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 Examiners in Counseling to promulgate a legislative rule relating to marriage and family therapist licensing rule.

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 Examiners in Counseling.

The legislative rule filed in the State Register on October 6, 2023, authorized under the authority of §30-31-6 of this code, modified by the West Virginia Board of Examiners in Counseling to meet the objections of the Legislative Rule-Making Review Committee and refiled in the State Register on November 15, 2023, relating to the West Virginia Board of Examiners in Counseling (marriage and family therapist licensing rule, 27 CSR 08), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the West Virginia Board of Examiners in Counseling to promulgate a legislative rule relating to marriage and family therapist licensing rule.

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