Senate Bill No. 77

(By Senators Anderson, Boley,

Grubb, Macnaughtan and Manchin)

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[Introduced January 20, 1995; referred to the

Committee on Natural Resources; then to the

Committee on Finance; and then to the Committee on the

Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new article, designated article three-a, relating to authorizing the division of natural resources to promulgate legislative rules relating to the minimum requirements for the handling and firing of handguns to obtain a concealed weapons license.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding
thereto a new article, designated article three-a, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 3A. AUTHORIZATION FOR BUREAU OF COMMERCE TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-3A-1. Division of natural resources.

The legislative rules filed in the state register on the twenty-third day of June, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, modified by the division of natural resources to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the fourteenth day of October, one thousand nine hundred ninety-four, relating to the division of natural resources (minimum requirements for handling and firing of handguns to obtain a concealed weapons license), are authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Natural Resources to promulgate legislative rules relating to the minimum requirements for the handling and firing of handguns to obtain a concealed weapons license.

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