Bill-Family Protect, Licensure

H. B. 2336


(By Delegates Douglas, Hunt, Compton, Faircloth, Linch











and Riggs)

[Introduced March 3, 1997; referred to the Committee

on the Judiciary.]


A BILL to amend article five, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated section two, relating to authorizing the family protection services board to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the operation of the board and the licensure and funding of domestic violence programs.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article five, chapter sixty-four of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated section two, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.


§64-5-2. Family protection services board.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the thirtieth day of August, one thousand nine hundred ninety-six, under the authority of section thirteen, article two-c, chapter forty-eight, of this code, modified by the family protection services board
to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-sixth day of February, one thousand nine hundred ninety-seven, relating to the family protection services board (operation of family protection services board and licensure and funding of domestic violence programs, 191 CSR 1), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Family Protection Services Board
to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Operation of the Board and the Licensure and Funding of Domestic Violence Programs .

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