ENROLLED

Senate Bill No. 336

(By Senators Ross, Minard, Snyder, Boley and Minear)

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[Passed March 7, 2003; in effect from passage.]

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AN ACT to amend and reenact section two, article one-a, chapter sixteen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, relating to uniform application forms for credentialing, recredentialing and updating information for health care practitioners.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That section two, article one-a, chapter sixteen of the code of West Virginia, one thousand nine hundred thirty-one, as amended, be amended to read as follows:
ARTICLE 1A. HEALTH CARE PLANNING COMMISSION.
§16-1A-2. Development of uniform credentialing application forms.

Notwithstanding any provision of this code to the contrary, the secretary of the department of health and human resources and the insurance commissioner shall jointly propose rules for legislative approval in accordance with the provisions of article three, chapter twenty-nine-a of this code governing the development and use of uniform application forms for credentialing, recredentialing or updating information of health care practitioners required to use the forms.