Senate Bill No. 279

(By Senators Ross, Minard,

Snyder, Boley and Minear)

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[Introduced January 23, 2003; 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 division of human services to promulgate a legislative rule relating to day care centers licensing.

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. Division of human services.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the twenty-sixth day of July, two thousand two, under the authority of section four, article two-b, chapter forty-nine, of this code, modified by the division of human resources to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the twenty-seventh day of September, two thousand two, relating to the division of human resources (day care centers licensing, 78 CSR 1), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Division of Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Day Care Centers Licensing.

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