158 CSR 12
H. B. 2202


(By Delegates Brown, D. Poling, Talbott, Miley, Overington and Sobonya)

[Introduced February 12, 2009; referred to the
Committee on the Judiciary.]




A BILL to amend and reenact article 2, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, relating to authorizing the Ethics Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to lobbying.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That article 2, chapter 64 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended and reenacted to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2. AUTHORIZATION FOR DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION TO PROMULGATE LEGISLATIVE RULES.

§64-9-1. Ethics Commission.
The legislative rule filed in the state register on the twenty-eighth day of July, two thousand eight, authorized under the authority of section two, article two, chapter six-b, of this code, modified by the Ethics Commission to meet the objections of the legislative rule-making review committee and refiled in the state register on the fifth day of September, two thousand eight, relating to the Ethics Commission (lobbying, 158 CSR 12), is authorized.

NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Ethics Commission to promulgate a legislative rule relating to Lobbying.

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