Senate Bill No. 181

(By Senators Ross, Anderson, Macnaughtan ,

Boley and Buckalew)

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[Introduced March 3, 1997; referred to the

Committee on Health and Human Resources;

and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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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.