Bill-Election
Senate Bill No. 272


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

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[Introduced January 28, 2000; referred to the

Committee on the Judiciary.]

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A BILL to amend article nine, 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 nineteen, relating to authorizing the elections commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the regulation of campaign finance.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:

That article nine, 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 nineteen, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 9. AUTHORIZATION FOR MISCELLANEOUS AGENCIES AND BOARDS TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.


§64-9-19. Elections commission.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the sixth day of August, one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine, under the authority of section five, article one-a, chapter three, of this code, modified by the elections commission to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-fourth day of September, one thousand nine hundred ninety-nine, relating to the elections commission (regulation of campaign finance
, 146 CSR 3), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Elections Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to the Regulation Of Campaign Finance
.

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