DHHR 64csr10

Senate Bill No. 343

(By Senators Minard, Fanning, Prezioso,

Unger, Boley and Minear)

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[Introduced February 25, 2005; 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 and reenact article 5, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Department of Health and Human Resources to promulgate a legislative rule relating to methods and standards for chemical tests for intoxication.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article 5, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 5. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-5-1. Department of Health and Human Resources.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the twenty-third day of April, two thousand four, under the authority of section four, article one, 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 twenty-fifth day of January, two thousand five, relating to the Department of Health and Human Resources (methods and standards for chemical tests for intoxication, 64 CSR 10), 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 Methods and Standards for Chemical Tests for Intoxication.

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