Bill-DHHR, Clin Lab

H. B. 2343


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











and Riggs)


[Introduced March 3, 1997; referred to the Committee on

Health and Human Resources then 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 department of health and human resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to clinical laboratory technician and technologist licensure and certification.

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. Department of health and human resources
.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the fifth day of October, one thousand nine hundred ninety-five, under the authority of section ten, article five-j, chapter sixteen, of this code, modified by the department of health and human resources
to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the thirty-first day of October, one thousand nine hundred ninety-six, relating to the department of health and human resources (clinical laboratory technician and technologist licensure and certification , 64 CSR 57), 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 Clinical Laboratory Technician and Technologist Licensure and Certification .

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