Bill-Corrections
Senate Bill No. 240


(By Senators Ross, Anderson, Minard, Snyder, Unger and Minear )

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[Introduced January 28, 2000;

and then to the Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend article six, 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 four, relating to authorizing the division of corrections to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the monitoring of inmate mail.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article six, 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 four, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 6. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AFFAIRS AND PUBLIC SAFETY TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.


§64-6-4. Division of corrections.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the fifth day of August, one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine, under the authority of section eighteen, article one, chapter twenty-five, of this code, modified by the division of corrections to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-first day of October, one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine, relating to the division of corrections (monitoring of inmate mail, 90 CSR 7), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Corrections to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Monitoring Of Inmate Mail.

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